Any way to remove something from autosuggest or clearing history?

[mboeker]

This is very low priority because it's cosmetic, since autosuggest goes with the most recently used command, but one time I accidentally typed 'exiot' instead of 'exit' and now it shows up every time. Is there a way to remove that suggestion? Clearing the history would work, but I tried turning history.save false and then true again and that did not clear out the history.

[chrisant996]

I recommend reading the documentation about history; there's a lot of useful information available there.

Saved Command History

Key Binding	Description	Command Name
Alt-Ctrl-D	While navigating through the history, removes the current history line from the saved history. Otherwise has no effect.	remove-history

So, for example you could:

• Use Up to navigate the history until the exiot line is recalled, then press Alt-Ctrl-D to remove that history entry.
• Or type exi then press PgUp until the exiot line is recalled, then press Alt-Ctrl-D to remove that history entry.
• Or run history | findstr exiot to find the history entry number associated with the command, and run history delete the_number_for_the_exiot_entry.
• (Or several other variations on any of the above.)

P.S. Also, run history -h for help on the history command. The history clear command deletes the entire history. But you don't need to do that.

[mboeker]

Oh I was focusing on autosuggest. Thank you for that detailed response!

[chrisant996]

Auto-suggestions use multiple strategies to generate suggestions.

One strategy is "history" which pulls suggestions from history. So, to make it stop suggesting a particular history entry, you would need to delete that history entry, so that is not there to be found anymore.