Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server.
I’m giving atuin a try right now and the first thing I noticed is what you just said about the up arrow. I don’t need to invoke the full atuin command history screen when I just want to quickly edit the last command. In its default state, the up arrow does the same thing as ctrl-r so it isn’t particularly useful, in my opinion. The developer suggests making it more useful by setting the up arrow to invoke a “local” command search, meaning a search of commands that were used in the current directory. Alternatively, you can disable the remapping of the up arrow key and just invoke atuin using ctrl-r. I think that’s what I will try next.
I had the same annoyance and ended up uninstalling it, I’ll look into remapping the up arrow too, I never liked the way ctrl-r works anyway. By the way, do you know how to delete a command from history in atuin? I found a bunch of discussions in development about this and some comments saying the function was added, but never mentioning the shortcut or command to delete
Yes, you can delete commands from the history. They added a TUI command inspector, which gives you more information on commands (date/time of last run, a time series of command runs, exit codes, etc.). You can delete history entries from this inspector.
In terms of disabling the up arrow remap, it’s just a flag in the configuration file (detailed for each distro in the installation instructions).
I haven’t used atuin a lot yet, but I sure like having a fast, full screen command history with fuzzy search.
