This package provides a command completing-history-insert-item to insert an item from history using completion. It calls completing-read to do this, meaning it will work with your preferred completion framework. The package supports: the minibuffer, eshell, comint and term.

There is also a function completing-history-setup-keybinding to setup a keybinding for you in all supported contexts. By default it binds completing-history-insert-item to M-r (usually bound to a command that gets the previous history item matching a regexp) and unbinds the companion M-s command (usually bound to a command that searches forward in the history).

To customize the binding of completing-history-insert-item, use completing-history-binding. To keep M-s from being unbound customize completing-history-unbind-M-s.

Will this be put on MELPA?

Sorry, there are no plans to put this on MELPA.

If you prefer packages on MELPA, you can use the consult-history command from Consult instead of the completing-history-insert-item command from this package. By design, Consult does not setup any key bindings for you. You can get the effect of (completing-history-setup-keybinding) by binding consult-history to M-r and unbinding M-s in each of the following keymaps:

• minibuffer-local-map
• eshell-hist-mode-map if you are on Emacs >=27, and esh-mode-map for Emacs <27. Note that if you are on Emacs <27 and want to bind something in esh-mode-map you need to do it in the eshell-mode-hook!
• shell-mode-map
• term-mode-map
• term-raw-map
• comint-mode-map
• slime-repl-mode-map