Seeking co-maintainers: I don't have much time to maintain this project these days. If someone would like to jump in and become a co-maintainer, it would be appreciated!

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.

TL;DR: an upgraded ctrl-r where history results make sense for what you're working on right now.

• Rebinds ctrl-r to bring up a full-screen reverse history search prioritized with a small neural network.
• Augments your shell history to track command exit status, timestamp, and execution directory in a SQLite database.
• Maintains your normal shell history file as well so that you can stop using McFly whenever you want.
• Unicode support throughout.
• Includes a simple action to scrub any history item from the McFly database and your shell history files.
• Designed to be extensible for other shells in the future.
• Written in Rust, so it's fast and safe.
• You can type % to match any number of characters when searching.

The key feature of McFly is smart command prioritization powered by a small neural network that runs in real time. The goal is for the command you want to run to always be one of the top suggestions.

When suggesting a command, McFly takes into consideration:

• The directory where you ran the command. You're likely to run that command in the same directory in the future.
• What commands you typed before the command (e.g., the command's execution context).
• How often you run the command.
• When you last ran the command.
• If you've selected the command in McFly before.
• The command's historical exit status. You probably don't want to run old failed commands.

1. Install the tap:

   brew tap cantino/mcfly

2. Install mcfly:

   brew install cantino/mcfly/mcfly

3. Add the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.config/fish/config.fish file:

   Bash:

   eval "$(mcfly init bash)"

   Zsh:

   eval "$(mcfly init zsh)"

   Fish:

   mcfly init fish | source

4. Run . ~/.bashrc / . ~/.zshrc / source ~/.config/fish/config.fish or restart your terminal emulator.

1. Remove mcfly:

   brew uninstall mcfly

2. Remove the tap:

   brew untap cantino/mcfly

3. Remove the lines you added to ~/.bashrc / ~/.zshrc / ~/.config/fish/config.fish.

1. Update the ports tree

   sudo port selfupdate

2. Install mcfly:

   sudo port install mcfly

3. Add the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.config/fish/config.fish file, as appropriate:

   Bash:

   eval "$(mcfly init bash)"

   Zsh:

   eval "$(mcfly init zsh)"

   Fish:

   mcfly init fish | source

4. Run . ~/.bashrc / . ~/.zshrc / source ~/.config/fish/config.fish or restart your terminal emulator.

1. Remove mcfly:

   sudo port uninstall mcfly

2. Remove the lines you added to ~/.bashrc / ~/.zshrc / ~/.config/fish/config.fish.

1. curl -LSfs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cantino/mcfly/master/ci/install.sh | sh -s -- --git cantino/mcfly

2. Add the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.config/fish/config.fish file, respectively:

   Bash:

   eval "$(mcfly init bash)"

   Zsh:

   eval "$(mcfly init zsh)"

   Fish:

   mcfly init fish | source

3. Run . ~/.bashrc / . ~/.zshrc / source ~/.config/fish/config.fish or restart your terminal emulator.

1. Download the latest release from GitHub.

2. Install to a location in your $PATH. (For example, you could create a directory at ~/bin, copy mcfly to this location, and add export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" to your .bashrc / .zshrc, or run set -Ua fish_user_paths "$HOME/bin" for fish.)

3. Add the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.config/fish/config.fish file, respectively:

   Bash:

   eval "$(mcfly init bash)"

   Zsh:

   eval "$(mcfly init zsh)"

   Fish:

   mcfly init fish | source

4. Run . ~/.bashrc / . ~/.zshrc / source ~/.config/fish/config.fish or restart your terminal emulator.

1. Install Rust 1.40 or later

2. Run git clone https://github.com/cantino/mcfly and cd mcfly

3. Run cargo install --path .

4. Ensure ~/.cargo/bin is in your $PATH.

5. Add the following to the end of your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.config/fish/config.fish file, respectively:

   Bash:

   eval "$(mcfly init bash)"

   Zsh:

   eval "$(mcfly init zsh)"

   Fish:

   mcfly init fish | source

6. Run . ~/.bashrc / . ~/.zshrc / source ~/.config/fish/config.fish or restart your terminal emulator.

• Add below code to your zshrc.

  zinit ice lucid wait"0a" from"gh-r" as"program" atload'eval "$(mcfly init zsh)"'
  zinit light cantino/mcfly

• It will download mcfly and install for you.

• $(mcfly init zsh) will be executed after prompt

To avoid McFly's UI messing up your scrollback history in iTerm2, make sure this option is unchecked:

A number of settings can be set via environment variables. To set a setting you should add the following snippets to your ~/.bashrc / ~/.zshrc / ~/.config/fish/config.fish.

To swap the color scheme for use in a light terminal, set the environment variable MCFLY_LIGHT.

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_LIGHT=TRUE

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_LIGHT TRUE

Tip: on macOS you can use the following snippet for color scheme to be configured based on system-wide settings:

bash / zsh:

if [[ "$(defaults read -g AppleInterfaceStyle 2&>/dev/null)" != "Dark" ]]; then
    export MCFLY_LIGHT=TRUE
fi

By default Mcfly uses an emacs inspired key scheme. If you would like to switch to the vim inspired key scheme, set the environment variable MCFLY_KEY_SCHEME.

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_KEY_SCHEME=vim

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_KEY_SCHEME vim

To enable fuzzy searching, set MCFLY_FUZZY to an integer. 0 is off; higher numbers weight toward shorter matches. Values in the 2-5 range get good results so far; try a few and report what works best for you!

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_FUZZY=2

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_FUZZY 2

To change the maximum number of results shown, set MCFLY_RESULTS (default: 10).

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_RESULTS=50

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_RESULTS 50

To delete without confirmation, set MCFLY_DELETE_WITHOUT_CONFIRM to true.

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_DELETE_WITHOUT_CONFIRM=true

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_DELETE_WITHOUT_CONFIRM true

To change interface view, set MCFLY_INTERFACE_VIEW (default: TOP). Available options: TOP and BOTTOM

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_INTERFACE_VIEW=BOTTOM

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_INTERFACE_VIEW BOTTOM

To disable the menu interface, set the environment variable MCFLY_DISABLE_MENU.

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_DISABLE_MENU=TRUE

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_DISABLE_MENU TRUE

To change the sorting of results shown, set MCFLY_RESULTS_SORT (default: RANK). Possible values RANK and LAST_RUN

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_RESULTS_SORT=LAST_RUN

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_RESULTS_SORT LAST_RUN

To change the prompt, set MCFLY_PROMPT (default: $).

bash / zsh:

export MCFLY_PROMPT="❯"

fish:

set -gx MCFLY_PROMPT "❯"

Note that only single-character-prompts are allowed. setting MCFLY_PROMPT to "<str>" will reset it to the default prompt.

McFly stores its SQLite database in the standard location for the OS. On OS X, this is in ~/Library/Application Support/McFly and on Linux it is in $XDG_DATA_DIR/mcfly/history.db (default would be ~/.local/share/mcfly/history.db). For legacy support, if ~/.mcfly/ exists, it is used instead.

If you have a very large history database and you notice that McFly launches slowly, you can set MCFLY_HISTORY_LIMIT to something like 10000 to limit how many records are considered when searching. In this example, McFly would search only the latest 10,000 entries.

McFly currently doesn't parse or use HISTTIMEFORMAT.

• Add a screencast to README.
• Learn common command options and autocomplete them in the suggestion UI?
• Sort command line args when coming up with the template matching string.
• Possible prioritization improvements:
  • Cross validation & explicit training set selection.
  • Learn command embeddings

Contributions and bug fixes are encouraged! However, we may not merge PRs that increase complexity significantly beyond what is already required to maintain the project. If you're in doubt, feel free to open an issue and ask.

cargo test

1. Edit Cargo.toml and bump the version.
2. Edit CHANGELOG.txt
3. Run cargo clippy and cargo fmt.
4. Recompile (cargo build).
5. git add -p
6. git ci -m 'Bumping to vx.x.x'
7. git tag vx.x.x
8. git push origin head --tags
9. Let the build finish.
10. Edit the new Release on Github.
11. Edit pkg/brew/mcfly.rb and update the version and SHAs. (shasum -a 256 ...)
12. Edit ../homebrew-mcfly/pkg/brew/mcfly.rb too.
13. cp pkg/brew/mcfly.rb ../homebrew-mcfly/pkg/brew/mcfly.rb
14. Compare with diff ../homebrew-mcfly/pkg/brew/mcfly.rb ../mcfly/pkg/brew/mcfly.rb ; diff ../homebrew-mcfly/HomebrewFormula/mcfly.rb ../mcfly/HomebrewFormula/mcfly.rb
15. git add -p && git ci -m 'Update homebrew' && git push
16. cd ../homebrew-mcfly && git add -p && git ci -m 'Update homebrew' && git push && cd ../mcfly
17. cargo publish