> there's also ble.sh

I tried. It was a source of inspiration for the looks, because it looks really nice!

However, due to some design decisions ble.sh is slow to the point of being unusable on some hardware I use, including a modern laptop running msys2 instead of WSL2

> For instance, ctrl+r kills the need for suggestions

Use both: seed your history search with the path and a few keywords, then sort by frequency of how often it was the correct or successful complete in the past (meaning it gave you a non error return code)