Modifying a failed command

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Forgive me if this has been addressed somewhere, but I can’t seem to find an answer.

I’ve only recently started using atuin (v18.3.0), and I love it. I’m using it with bash. I’ve entered a command that bash complains about, but since (I’m assuming) bash complained about it, atuin didn’t record it. Before atuin, I would’ve hit arrow-up to retrieve the failed command, edit it and hit enter to continue on. Now, of course, I hit arrow-up, get atuin but the command isn’t there. Not a big deal when it’s a short command, but if it’s a longer one with only a minor typo then I don’t see how to edit it.

Example:

gene@REDACTED ~
$ alias | grep (git_repos|Data_projects) | grep 'cd '
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I arrow up to edit, and it’s not in atuin’s list, and I can’t pull it on to the command command line to edit. I can rerun using !!.

So I need to figure out either how to get the failed command INTO atuin’s history or (preferably) be able to momentarily bypass atuin’s up-arrow keybinding on an as-needed basis.

any ideas or am I just being totally dense and overlooking something obvious?

thanks!

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I think this is what the store_failed configuration option is for. But it’s an interesting point that failed commands are perhaps useful in the history for a short period of time, while longer term perhaps you don’t want them cluttering things up.