Browsing history for comint, eshell, shell

[leungbk]

It would be nice if consult had functions for browsing their respective history files.

[minad]

I think consult-history does what you want? It was just added yesterday!

[leungbk]

Thanks @minad, I did not notice that.

Would you be interested in a PR like abo-abo/swiper@69fedaa? The purpose is to add support for the C-c C-x commands in comint and eshell.

[minad]

@leungbk Can you describe please what you want to do? I took only a quick look to the link, but it is not immediately obvious.

[leungbk]

If my eshell history contains:

echo old
echo newer
echo newest

Right now, if I call consult-history, then select echo old and hit RET, there is no way to quickly retrieve its successor, echo newer in the history list; I would have to either call consult-history again or mash M-p until finding it.

The comint-like modes all contain a command bound to C-c C-x for retrieving the successor; in eshell it's called eshell-get-next-from-history.

Right now, consult-history does not do the bookkeeping required to update the information used by eshell-get-next-from-history. The commit I posted above did that for counsel's relevant commands, and I'd now like to write something analogous here in consult.

[minad]

@leungbk Ok, I see. This sounds good! Looking forward to a PR!