Is it possible to filter continuous and repeated history records？

[zitn]

What do you want?

could you add an option to filter out continuous and repeated history records?

Why do you want this?

Sometimes I will use a lot of the same commands repeatedly, which makes it difficult to find the history records I want.

Who else would benefit from this?

Other people who use repeated commands a lot, I think.

[marlonrichert]

Zsh itself has various options for that:

• HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS: When searching for history entries in the line editor, do not display duplicates of a line previously found, even if the duplicates are not contiguous.
• HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS: If a new command line being added to the history list duplicates an older one, the older command is removed from the list (even if it is not the previous event).

[thekip]

@marlonrichert could you elaborate a bit how using this options hide this duplicates?

I tried to add setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS to my .zhrc and then source ~/.zshrc but still see a lot of duplicates in search. Sorry if it's a stupid question, I'm a complete newbie in all these things

[marlonrichert]

You're right, that option doesn't seem to work here. I'll see if I can change the code to respect it.

[thekip]

Moreover now it shows one command in the list, but pick up different command when you navigate to it.

[GabrielDeml]

Could you point me in the direction of where this bug would be? I have been having the same problem and would like to fix it. Starting next Thursday I will have a couple days off from school so at least I could take a shot at fixing it.

[marlonrichert]

@GabrielDeml Sure thing. You can find the code in question here: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete/blob/main/completion/_autocomplete.history_lines

Let me know if you have any questions.

[marlonrichert]

All right, it's there.

[marlonrichert]

@GabrielDeml Sorry, this turned out not to be a "good first issue" at all. My bad. 😅