Actually, this seems like an interesting question. I don’t really see any reason why a shell must load the history file before the user starts typing. I mean, I

Actually, this seems like an interesting question. I don’t really see any reason why a shell must load the history file before the user starts typing. I mean, I usually don’t ^r immediately, so to speed things up it could: * Load asynchronously * Only have a barrier if I reverse-search. Might be over-engineered, though.