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How is history recording in fish? I found that keeping an eternal history tagged with screen session ids is a huge productivity boost in my bash setup and hopi

How is history recording in fish? I found that keeping an eternal history tagged with screen session ids is a huge productivity boost in my bash setup and hoping to see if it's feasible in other shells.

e12e 3y ago
Could you expand on?: > ... tagged with screen session ids
- foobarian 3y ago
  I set a unique session ID in screen sessions, which get recorded in history, which lets me resume the session history streams across reboots/screen restarts.
  - e12e 3y ago
    So screen manages the history, not bash? I'm not aware of a way to tag bash history?
    - foobarian 3y ago
      No, bash does, using a bunch of hacks hooked to PROMPT_COMMAND. Which is why I would like a nicer way to handle this :-)
alwillis 3y ago
> How is history recording in fish? I'd say it's pretty good; history gets saved in a human-readable format (YAML) in $XDG_DATA_HOME, which is configurable. A feature I really like: when retrieving completions from history, Fish shows the commands that occurred for the particular directory you're in. Searching history is also nice [1]. [1]: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#history-search https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#history-...