Search ignoring commands?

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I’m loving Atuin, and it’s very quickly become such an integral part of my shell use.

But I keep getting some strange results with the Search (accessed by pushing the up arrow or Ctrl-R).

I default to the SESSION search, so I can quickly press up arrow & enter. But it often doesn’t have the previous command showing.

So here is my shell:
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And I start my search:
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And you can see that the previous command in the shell isn’t shown.

But if I enter the first character of the command:
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This also happens for DIRECTORY:
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But enter the first character:
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Am I doing something wrong?

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Welcome to the forum!

Love to hear that :heart: :turtle:

Not at all. This may well be a bug.

Could you let me know the following please:

  1. What version of Atuin are you using?
  2. What shell are you using? If bash, are you using bash-preexec or blesh? (it will be the former if you’re not sure)
  3. What OS are you using?

Thank you!

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Thanks for the response, Ellie.

Version: 17.2.1
Shell: bash with blesh
OS: Ubuntu 22.04

I only made a few changes to the ~/.config/atuin/config.toml file:

dialect =  "uk"
filter_mode_shell_up_key_binding =  "session"
ctrl_n_shortcuts = true
common_subcommands = [
   "svn",
   "git",
]

As an aside, that “svn” doesn’t seem to change anything for the stats. I still get “svn” as a command.
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Should I add these as issues in Github? I’m always wary of doing that, some projects aren’t … kind about bug reports that aren’t bugs.

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If you’re happy to! It does sound a bit like a bug to me. Happy to discuss here though and I can file the bug later.

I get why some projects don’t take it well (it can be annoying to have issues used as a support forum), which is why I set up this forum. But I would rather people reached out for help via any method, than didn’t reach out at all. Issues or otherwise :slight_smile:

Anyways this issue. I’m struggling to replicate it atm. How quickly after running the command are you pressing the up arrow? And if I could trouble you for a video, that would be SUPER helpful.

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Sorry for the late response - I try not to go near the computer on the weekends.

I think I have worked out what the commonality is between the commands that go missing. They are commands that I have used in another session after I used the command in this session.

So it’s easy to reproduce:

  • Open two terminals
  • in the first type “echo hello”
  • run interactive session search to confirm it is there
  • in the second, type “echo hello”
  • in the first, run interactive session search to confirm it is not there
  • enter ‘e’ and it appears

Using atuin search --filter-mode session shows the command, but the interactive search doesn’t.

I’ve downloaded and compiled the latest git version and can confirm it happens there too.

Simon.

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ah! thanks for providing those steps - I’ve replicated the issue. will get it sorted soon :pray:

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With this patch, I can no longer replicate the issue

Does that solve it for you?

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Excellent, that fixes it, thanks Ellie!

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