Zsh plugin that binds ^G to quickly toggle the current shell history file location.

Oh My Zsh: clone or symlink this repo into ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/history-here, then add it to your plugins array:

plugins=(... history-here)

Zim: add a zmodule entry to your .zimrc. It will be autodownloaded on next shell start, or you can run zimfw install/zimfw update:

zmodule leonjza/history-here

Manual source (after cloning):

source /path/to/history-here/history-here.plugin.zsh

You can configure automatic isolation of shell history by setting the HISTORY_HERE_AUTO_DIRS array. Entries are treated as prefixes for a single path component, and history is stored at the matched component root. This keeps history anchored to the project root even when you are in subdirectories or start a new shell there.

Manual toggling with ^G always uses the current directory ($PWD) so you can intentionally isolate history at any depth.

export HISTORY_HERE_AUTO_DIRS=(/Users/foo/clients ~/work)

Examples:

• /Users/foo/clients/acme/another uses /Users/foo/clients/acme/.zsh_history
• ~/work/alpha/src uses ~/work/alpha/.zsh_history

Note, if you set a small value of something like pa, any directory with a component starting with pa under the same parent directory would trigger history isolation.