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Working at the Command Line is a superpower especially when combined with auto-suggestions from tools such as zsh + oh-my-zsh. I would be completely lost if I

Working at the Command Line is a superpower especially when combined with auto-suggestions from tools such as zsh + oh-my-zsh. I would be completely lost if I didn’t have the auto suggestions as my “second brain” ! One problem though — to run a variant of an existing previous command, I find myself editing super long command lines, I.e bring up a previous command by accepting the auto-suggestion, then Ctl-b thru it and make an edit to run a new variant. This made me wonder: is there some tool that presents a TUI type of 2-dimensional interface that lets me navigate through the various options using arrow keys etc ?

rascul 4y ago
Have you looked at hstr? https://github.com/dvorka/hstr https://github.com/dvorka/hstr
- d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
  Wow thanks for this suggestion. Reminds me why I love HN :)
- weeeeelp 4y ago
  hey that's pretty cool! just installed and works nicely on zsh
- vaughan 4y ago
  So cool!
evulhotdog 4y ago
I can’t directly answer your question, but in iTerm2, I am able to option+click to where I want to put the cursor, and it will put your cursor exactly there. This allows you to edit annoying long command with more ease and (kind of) a GUI feature in a sense.
nequo 4y ago
Not the TUI you are asking for but TIL about Ctrl-X Ctrl-E from this link which starts up your text editor to edit the command.
- d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
  Thanks for pointing this out!
mejutoco 4y ago
I like zsh, and I want to mention the fish shell auto-completion. I start typing anything contained in a command in history (not necessarily the beginning) and can flip through the searches with up and down arrows. It is nicely highlighted, and the default, so I do not need to spend too much time fiddling with settings.
d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
A trick I should mention - when setting up a new machine, copy the .zsh-history file, then your brain gets ported to the new machine as well :)
BrightOne 4y ago
https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/ellie/atuin is a TUI with the added option of syncing history between shells and machines.
- d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
  Looks worth checking out, thanks
henry_viii 4y ago
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions is nice but personally I prefer: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
- d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
  Thank you. Indeed this is super nice.
MonkeyClub 4y ago
> is there some tool that presents a TUI type of 2-dimensional interface In an Emacs shell, that's the default behaviour - then you can edit a previous command, and by pressing Enter it gets copied to the command line and executed.

rascul 4y ago

Have you looked at hstr? https://github.com/dvorka/hstr https://github.com/dvorka/hstr

d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
Wow thanks for this suggestion. Reminds me why I love HN :)
weeeeelp 4y ago
hey that's pretty cool! just installed and works nicely on zsh
vaughan 4y ago
So cool!

evulhotdog 4y ago

I can’t directly answer your question, but in iTerm2, I am able to option+click to where I want to put the cursor, and it will put your cursor exactly there. This allows you to edit annoying long command with more ease and (kind of) a GUI feature in a sense.

nequo 4y ago

Not the TUI you are asking for but TIL about Ctrl-X Ctrl-E from this link which starts up your text editor to edit the command.

d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out!

mejutoco 4y ago

I like zsh, and I want to mention the fish shell auto-completion. I start typing anything contained in a command in history (not necessarily the beginning) and can flip through the searches with up and down arrows. It is nicely highlighted, and the default, so I do not need to spend too much time fiddling with settings.

d4rkp4ttern 4y ago

A trick I should mention - when setting up a new machine, copy the .zsh-history file, then your brain gets ported to the new machine as well :)

BrightOne 4y ago

https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/ellie/atuin is a TUI with the added option of syncing history between shells and machines.

d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
Looks worth checking out, thanks

henry_viii 4y ago

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions is nice but personally I prefer: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

d4rkp4ttern 4y ago
Thank you. Indeed this is super nice.

MonkeyClub 4y ago

> is there some tool that presents a TUI type of 2-dimensional interface In an Emacs shell, that's the default behaviour - then you can edit a previous command, and by pressing Enter it gets copied to the command line and executed.