I remember reading this article back when I was still using Bash. I've finally got the history I like only after switching to ZSH.
You can get decent history in ZSH just by setting the right options. If you want great history, you'll need to write a bit of code. Right now my history works as follows.
History is written to disk after every command. Up and Down keys go through the local history (from the same session). Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down go through the shared history (from all sessions). Ctrl+R also uses shared history (it's easy to add another binding for local history but I don't have it). Pressing Up/Ctrl+Up after typing something will go over history entries that have the matching prefix. For example, `git<Up>` will show the last command from the current session that starts with `git`. Here's my config: https://old.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/bsa224/how_to_setup_a_....
In addition, my history is stored in Git. History from the local machine comes first, and from other machines second. This is fairly easy to do it Bash, too.
You can get decent history in ZSH just by setting the right options. If you want great history, you'll need to write a bit of code. Right now my history works as follows.
History is written to disk after every command. Up and Down keys go through the local history (from the same session). Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down go through the shared history (from all sessions). Ctrl+R also uses shared history (it's easy to add another binding for local history but I don't have it). Pressing Up/Ctrl+Up after typing something will go over history entries that have the matching prefix. For example, `git<Up>` will show the last command from the current session that starts with `git`. Here's my config: https://old.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/bsa224/how_to_setup_a_....
In addition, my history is stored in Git. History from the local machine comes first, and from other machines second. This is fairly easy to do it Bash, too.