better history suggestions

[maxomatic458]

I think it would be cool if the history suggestions wouldn't just work for full commands but also for sub-commands/strings.

e.g
i run the command clear

in the shell i will get the history suggestion for it, but only if i didnt enter anything else yet.

echo "test"; c will not suggest clear here

this would be especially useful in cases like this:

scp path/to/some/file/ root@123.123.123:~

if someone would want to upload another file, they wouln't get a suggestion for the second part, so root@123.123.123:~ would need to fully by typed out again;

[fdncred]

Sounds fancy but potentially confusing too.

[bew]

Your second example made me think about a nice history thing I configured in zsh and I use a lot: words history

It basically allows me to complete any words (argument) I ever passed to a command..
Here for example I typed in echo /tmp/fo then triggered that words history:

And I'm getting back all the arguments I ever used that starts with /tmp/fo
(these files don't exist in my filesystem anymore, they're only mentioned in my looong history of commands)

Maybe nushell could have something like this?

[maxim-uvarov]

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