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What's it like with many shells/panes in multiplexers open? I often find my history from one or another either lost or not available across different ones.

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With atuin, it's available immediately on other local session (panes, windows, tabs etc). There's also remote sync, so after some configurable amount of time, it's even available on other devices.

+ if you don’t like this, you can have it filter by session by default!

Thank you for this awesome tool!

Spectacular, thanks!

Works great! To me the reliable instant history sync between tmux panes is one of the best features of atuin. I tried many things to get this working with vanilla bash and it always seemed flaky.

You can get that with bash with this config:

    # append to .bash_history and reread after each command
    export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a;$PROMPT_COMMAND"
    # append to .bash_history instead of overwriting
    shopt -s histappend

Except that this doesn't save commands which haven't finished yet, and it never saves the current pending command when the shell is killed (e.g. the user closes the terminal window or logs out or the SSH connection is broken).

Sometimes the rare, long-running commands are the most valuable.

If I set up history software, it should preserve all history, and as early as possible.

I believe it’s a setting. You can choose to save history and either merge history on session exit or immediately.

At least it is a setting for zsh

You’d think this would be even more robust with a sqlish storage backend than the usual text files used for history.

Appending to files should be atomic, so I don't think you'll run into any corruption issues just by appending.

Syncs instantly between them

You can optionally filter by the current window session, current machine, or commands across all machines you have atuin installed on

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