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I've been using McFly [1] recently, and like it a lot.

> McFly replaces your default ctrl-r shell history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.

[1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly




the neural network is pretty broken. It prioritizes things that I did weeks ago over a command that I just ran 20 times. Be a bit critical of it, I actually found it fairly terrible.

I know it's open source and people working on it might be reading this so let me apologize to you personally and please don't take this message as discouragement. I know how demotivating one bad review can be. It just wasn't working for me.


I used to use McFly too, but atuin is much better. Worth trying, takes one minute to install it.


Which features from Atuin are missing from/inferior in McFly?


for me, atuin's history sync is a huge must since i use 5 different machines across my house.


atuin is much better in what? McFly is a lot more light weight and does semantic search using a neural network and do not need a database.




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