A zsh histb browser using skim. Implemented in rust.

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Utilities zsh history fuzzy history-management skim
Overview

zsh-histdb-skim

This is a reimplementation of https://github.com/m42e/zsh-histdb-fzf in rust and using skim as a library.

Why

zsh-histdb-fzf works, but it is a bit quirky. It has for sure some flaws, regarding responsiveness and communication with processes. skim offers a fzf like behavior and is available as library in rust. It lacks some highlighting in the header, and has a bit different order/matching algorithm.

This should result in better performance, responsiveness and a more stable behavior.

Why rust?

skim is available in rust. I have never tried rust with a purpose before. I wanted to give it a try and learn something new.

How it works

Well, it accesses the zsh histdb. It lets you search on different levels.

What do you have to do?

Install the plugin, e.g. using zplug.

  zplug 'm42e/zsh-histdb-skim', from:github, use:zsh-histdb-skim.zsh, at:main

It downloads the binary (if available) automatically. You can do manually by calling histdb-skim-download.

The plugin calls bindkey but some other plugins may overwrite. In this case you would have to do it yourself:

bindkey '^R' histdb-skim-widget

Building

cargo build --release
mkdir -p bin
mv target/release/zsh-histdb-skim bin

TODO

  • improve rust code

Apologies 😉

While I stole the idea from myself, this is my first rust project ever. So I would be glad for tips and improvement PRs.

Comments
  • Results are much worse than zsh-histdb-fzf

    Results are much worse than zsh-histdb-fzf

    zsh-histdb-skim finds results that fit much less well first before the results I want. For example, in a search for ls -alh the results are:

    fzf: "14/04/2022 ls data/artifacts/SplitDatasetArtifact -alh" skim: "14/04 cargo fmt --all --features sqlite -- -- check"

    The reason seems to be the .nosort(true) option in main.rs. Removing that option, the results are much better

    opened by phiresky 4
  • Commit Cargo.lock

    Commit Cargo.lock

    Just tried to build this within nix using rustPlatform.buildRustPackage and that failed because the Cargo.lock is missing. I saw that you removed the Cargo.lock, though I don't know why. Here it is recommended to commit the Cargo.lock

    opened by SrTobi 3
  • compatibility with more plugin systems

    compatibility with more plugin systems

    could you rename the main script to zsh-histdb-skim.plugin.zsh? then more plugin systems can detect it.

    thanks

    (even for zplug, it should make the install command shorter)

    opened by phiresky 2
  • Automatic download fails when installing system-wide

    Automatic download fails when installing system-wide

    First I'd like to thank you for this amazing plugin, you saved me some hours writing a proper histdb integration myself :D

    I've installed this plugin system wide to /usr/share/zsh/zsh-histdb-skim/, which unfortunately causes my regular user to try downloading the binary to that directory. I believe it would be far better if your program would store the binary in the proper XDG directory in the user's home. So in bash/zsh syntax this would be ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/zsh-histdb-skim/.

    If i'm not mistaken, the binary will also never be updated once it exists, correct? How are you planning on automatically delivering updates?

    opened by oddlama 1
  • add vendored script

    add vendored script

    When packaged by a package manager, it's not ideal to support automatic updating. Ship an additional file that can be used

    • without the support of autoupdate / autofetch
    • with the binary simply expected to exist somewhere in $PATH.
    opened by sielicki 0
  • hardcode arm64 to use darwin-x64 binary

    hardcode arm64 to use darwin-x64 binary

    trying to install this on my m1 mac and found it doesn't work by default but I found I can still run the darwin-x64 binary, so just adding this as a temporary solution until you have an arm64 binary 😆

    opened by 0x01BF52 0
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