I see the benefit, but... that looks like work. From the post:
> Why save vim /etc/rc.conf when sudo vim /etc/rc.conf is what I meant 100% of the time?
Good point, but AFAIK all shells search history by recency by default. Whether I search with Fish's up-arrow, or with Atuin's ^r, the first result will be the match I executed most recently. In this case, that means I'd have to type `sudo vim /etc/rc.conf` correctly one time and then that's the first version of the command I'll see next time I look for it. And if it's something I do often enough for it to matter, but still manage to screw it up frequently, I'll turn it into an alias or function.
This is the kind of busywork that feels like an ADHD tarpit to me. No. I absolutely do not need to optimize my shell history, lest I end up with a beautiful, tiny history file that's free from the detritus that would have come from me spending that time actually doing my job.
Agree, the recency sort sort ends up normalizing history over time anyway. Use fzf with your history to see more than one match a time anyway, and you can at least glance through a few of the iterative commands you went through if your history isn’t “normalized” yet. I like keeping shell history dead simple— it’s a stack of executed statements. Period.
I do pull very often run things into functions and source them into every shell session. Usually only parameterized things that aren’t trivial to use reverse search for.
> Why save vim /etc/rc.conf when sudo vim /etc/rc.conf is what I meant 100% of the time?
Good point, but AFAIK all shells search history by recency by default. Whether I search with Fish's up-arrow, or with Atuin's ^r, the first result will be the match I executed most recently. In this case, that means I'd have to type `sudo vim /etc/rc.conf` correctly one time and then that's the first version of the command I'll see next time I look for it. And if it's something I do often enough for it to matter, but still manage to screw it up frequently, I'll turn it into an alias or function.
This is the kind of busywork that feels like an ADHD tarpit to me. No. I absolutely do not need to optimize my shell history, lest I end up with a beautiful, tiny history file that's free from the detritus that would have come from me spending that time actually doing my job.