smart-history.plugin.zsh - a history plugin that makes life easy

smart-history.plugin.zsh

# https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html
# https://postgresqlstan.github.io/cli/zsh-history-options
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273861/unlimited-history-in-zsh

setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY     # include timestamp
setopt BANG_HIST            # Treat the '!' character specially during expansion.
setopt HIST_BEEP            # beep if attempting to access a history entry which isn’t there
setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS    # do not display previously found command
setopt HIST_IGNORE_DUPS     # do not save duplicate of prior command
setopt HIST_NO_STORE        # do not save history commands
setopt HIST_REDUCE_BLANKS   # strip superfluous blanks
setopt HIST_SAVE_NO_DUPS    # do not save duplicate entries in the history file.
setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS # Delete old recorded entry if new entry is a duplicate.
setopt SHARE_HISTORY        # Share history between all sessions. (conflicts with inc_append_history bc it provides this functionality)
setopt HIST_VERIFY          # Don't execute immediately upon history expansion.
setopt HIST_LEX_WORDS       # Perform history expansion on the words following the cursor, not the entire line.
setopt HIST_FCNTL_LOCK      # Use fcntl(2) to lock the history file, for thread safety.
setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE    # do not save if line starts with space (good way to avoid secret keys)

HISTFILE=$HOME/.config/.smart_zsh_history
SAVEHIST=999999999
HISTSIZE=999999999