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Find previous commands and queries, edit the parts you need, and run them again.

Filter hstr history, recall a command, and edit it

Recall a command or query

Section titled “Recall a command or query”
:hstr

Lists previous commands and jaq queries, newest first.

  1. Press Tab to move to the filter editor.
  2. Enter a string to find, such as jaq or items.
  3. Press Tab to return to the list, then select an entry with j / k or the arrow keys.
  4. Press Enter or click to restore it to the original command editor.
  5. Edit it if needed, then press Enter to run it.

Filtering updates as you type and uses case-insensitive substring matching, not regular expressions. Selecting a history entry does not execute the command.

:hstr takes no arguments. Press Esc to return to browsing.

Storage and sharing

Section titled “Storage and sharing”

History is shared across the input, focus, and jaq views, with up to 1,000 entries kept across sessions. It is stored in vy/history.jsonl under the operating system’s local data directory. Consecutive identical commands are stored as a single entry. :hstr itself is not added to history.

Expressions entered with / are saved in a separate search history. Grep expressions in flatten are not included in this persistent history.