feat: make history list format configurable (#1638)

* feat: make history list format configurable

* Update atuin-client/config.toml

* review: run format

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Co-authored-by: Ellie Huxtable <ellie@elliehuxtable.com>

4 files changed, 25 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/atuin-client/config.toml b/atuin-client/config.toml
index d18d9783..9a094f88 100644
--- a/atuin-client/config.toml
+++ b/atuin-client/config.toml
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
 ## alt-0 .. alt-9
 # ctrl_n_shortcuts = false
 
+## default history list format - can also be specified with the --format arg
+# history_format = "{time}\t{command}\t{duration}"
+
 ## prevent commands matching any of these regexes from being written to history.
 ## Note that these regular expressions are unanchored, i.e. if they don't start
 ## with ^ or end with $, they'll match anywhere in the command.
diff --git a/atuin-client/src/settings.rs b/atuin-client/src/settings.rs
index 122b8d57..de6b10a4 100644
--- a/atuin-client/src/settings.rs
+++ b/atuin-client/src/settings.rs
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ pub struct Settings {
     pub word_jump_mode: WordJumpMode,
     pub word_chars: String,
     pub scroll_context_lines: usize,
+    pub history_format: String,
 
     #[serde(with = "serde_regex", default = "RegexSet::empty")]
     pub history_filter: RegexSet,
@@ -480,6 +481,7 @@ impl Settings {
         let session_path = data_dir.join("session");
 
         Ok(Config::builder()
+            .set_default("history_format", "{time}\t{command}\t{duration}")?
             .set_default("db_path", db_path.to_str())?
             .set_default("record_store_path", record_store_path.to_str())?
             .set_default("key_path", key_path.to_str())?
diff --git a/atuin/src/command/client/history.rs b/atuin/src/command/client/history.rs
index b91fc57a..e983cc7b 100644
--- a/atuin/src/command/client/history.rs
+++ b/atuin/src/command/client/history.rs
@@ -366,7 +366,16 @@ impl Cmd {
             .list(&filters, &context, None, false, include_deleted)
             .await?;
 
-        print_list(&history, mode, format.as_deref(), print0, reverse);
+        print_list(
+            &history,
+            mode,
+            match format {
+                None => Some(settings.history_format.as_str()),
+                _ => format.as_deref(),
+            },
+            print0,
+            reverse,
+        );
 
         Ok(())
     }
@@ -449,7 +458,10 @@ impl Cmd {
                 print_list(
                     last,
                     ListMode::from_flags(human, cmd_only),
-                    format.as_deref(),
+                    match format {
+                        None => Some(settings.history_format.as_str()),
+                        _ => format.as_deref(),
+                    },
                     false,
                     true,
                 );
diff --git a/atuin/src/command/client/search.rs b/atuin/src/command/client/search.rs
index 6a70ed62..f724ef7f 100644
--- a/atuin/src/command/client/search.rs
+++ b/atuin/src/command/client/search.rs
@@ -176,8 +176,6 @@ impl Cmd {
                 eprintln!("{item}");
             }
         } else {
-            let list_mode = ListMode::from_flags(self.human, self.cmd_only);
-
             let opt_filter = OptFilters {
                 exit: self.exit,
                 exclude_exit: self.exclude_exit,
@@ -218,10 +216,14 @@ impl Cmd {
                         run_non_interactive(settings, opt_filter.clone(), &self.query, &db).await?;
                 }
             } else {
+                let format = match self.format {
+                    None => Some(settings.history_format.as_str()),
+                    _ => self.format.as_deref(),
+                };
                 super::history::print_list(
                     &entries,
-                    list_mode,
-                    self.format.as_deref(),
+                    ListMode::from_flags(self.human, self.cmd_only),
+                    format,
                     false,
                     true,
                 );