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WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite? (lemmy.tf)

submitted 10 months ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I legitimately back up my history file. Mostly because it likes to truncate itself randomly (though this may have been fixed in zsh, or my config, because it's been a while). Just a systemd timer that triggers a shell script to copy it by date and rotate anything older than 100 copies.

Edit: WHY DID I SAY ANYTHING? After like 3 months of no problems, my history truncated itself to 3 entries a few minutes ago. I've only ever seen a few days of loss before that lol.

[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Have you tried Atuin? It's amazing.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 3 points 10 months ago

I did try it for a bit. IIRC it slowed me down more than I cared for. Maybe worth trying again, though.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I'm annoyed when my thirteen bash instances don't share history, but I'd probably be a lot more annoyed if they did.

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 2 points 10 months ago

That's one thing I like about zsh, or my config at least, because I use i3 and therefore tend to open lots of shells. History is mostly local until I hit return twice (two empty prompts) at which point I can get history from other sessions. It's stuck more global at that point though aside from future history.