[eating555]

Bro, just use fish shell. They have done all the heavy lifting for you.

[soraminazuki]

I just ran fish, and pressing ctrl-r did exactly what the author sought to fix.

> What does 5408 mean and why is it taking up valuable screen space?

[petepete]

I use fish with one plugin - fzf.fish. It's invaluable to me and the shortcuts are second nature now.

It prefixes each line with a timestamp rather than a number, which makes most sense to me.

https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish?tab=readme-ov-file#-se...

[kccqzy]

The fish version of history search doesn't just do a simple substring search like in bash. It's already more powerful by doing a subsequence search. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9476

[WD-42]

I don’t think anyone that uses fish uses ctrl+r. You just start typing and you get (directory aware) history based completions.

[WD-42]

Exactly. Lots of work to do what fish does out of the box.

[vips7L]

Powershell too.