What happens to my actual shell-provided history?
Does too much for me.
edit:
> Both files follow the XDG base directory spec, so neither lives in the install directory. Removing whetuu with rm -rf ~/.whetuu cannot take your history with it. whetuu paths prints both locations.
Please stop creating directories in my $HOME.
I tried a few (Atuin? McFly?) but the performance wasn't good with my massive zsh history (going back several years).
Zsh+fzf does a buttery smooth job (no folders though, unfortunately). Other tools start to stutter at scale.
It does hijacks shell history. If I press the up arrow, I expect _my shell_ to handle it how I configured it, not your tool. Because you’re saying your tool is a shell prompt!
A shell prompt is the program that runs before and after every shell command to show me contextual information like the current directory, and the exit code of the last command.
If you want this to be include customizations beyond the prompt, stop calling it a prompt.
it does:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
User-specific executable files may be stored in $HOME/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure this directory shows up in the UNIX $PATH environment variable, at an appropriate place.
i prefer ~/bin/ but this is better than creating you own directory that needs to be added to the path.
It does. Read the spec. It’s in $HOME/.local/bin. It’s just not configurable like the other paths.