On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 15:52:22 -0400, supp...@eggplantsd.com wrote: > I would suggest: > 2. Restrict up-arrow completion to the history of present session.
This is going to be an *extremely* unpopular suggestion. Though, I must wonder: do you literally mean *only* the up-arrow (or Ctrl-P or ESC k), or do you also include searching from within the interactive shell's editing modes (Ctrl-R or ESC /)? My own usage pattern includes using ESC / to bring up a historic command from a past session. I do this a *lot*. I suspect others may share that pattern, albeit possibly with the emacs key binding instead of the vi one. I don't know how common it is to use the up arrow (or equivalent) to bring up a command from a past session. I've done it a few times -- usually when I'm trying to answer someone's question, and I launch a temporary shell window to do so, get my answer, paste it to them, close the window -- and then suddenly they change the question. So I open another new window, and bring up the command(s) I was just using in the previous window, modify them, etc.
