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Alternatively, you can use ZSH and not lose history, even better, have history work simultaneously in multiple terminal windows simultaneously without closing the window to save/read the history of other windows. http://ohmyz.sh/

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I think it's more about the MacOS's add-ons to bash here than bash vs zsh -- but who knows!

This is one of zsh's many killer features. Years of accumulated shell history with backsearch-by-regex saves me so much time.

Here's a nickel, kid.

Is the stuff you linked to needed to realize those benefits in zsh?

No, just put the following in ~/.zshrc:

  # share history among terminals
  setopt share_history

  # append to the history instead of overwriting
  setopt append_history

  # append to history incrementally instead of when the shell exits
  setopt inc_append_history

Look ma, no more lost history!

That is pretty great.

Also add https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search to make history search really nice (type normally in shell, then press up arrow, like in fish)

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