Regarding history: I have a function in my ZSH config which excludes certain things from the history. Especially things that can break stuff when my sausage fingers CTRL-R the wrong thing
Something like this:
# Prevent certain strings from appearing in the history
# Anything starting with a leading space is ignored
# Anything containing "--force" or "whatever" is ignored
function zshaddhistory() {
emulate -L zsh
if ! [[ "$1" =~ "(^ |--force|whatever)" ]] ; then
print -sr -- "${1%%$'\n'}"
fc -p
else
return 1
fi
}
Something like this: