How to get a Terminator Layout Command to show up in history?

Question

I've discovered the joy saving Terminator layouts and adding commands to ~/.config/terminator/config that are run when it starts up. I've also discovered that hitting Ctrl+c to stop a watch command for a moment can't be followed by an up arrow to restart the watch because the command isn't in the history.

Here's an ugly work around that only prints the command:

command = (set -x; watch "date") && bash || bash

This allows copying the command after Ctrl+c but who has time for that? I want my up arrow to work. Hoping some bash magic can fix this.

Using terminator 1.91 in RHEL

Answer 1

This appears to do what I want:

command = watch date && echo "watch date" >> ~/.bash_history && bash || bash

Inspired by How to add a command to the history when it is run inside of a bash script?

Answer 2

To avoid the need to repeat the command put this in ~/.config/terminator/config

command = '''bash -ic 'histrun '\''watch "date"'\''''''

and this in .bash_rc

histrun() {
  eval $1 && printf '%s\n' "$1" >> ~/.bash_history && bash || bash
}

If you have a different command (date in this example) that you don't want run right away but want available in history as soon as you hit ctrl-c then use this:

command = '''bash -ic 'histhold '\''date'\''''''

with this:

histhold() {
  printf '%s\n' "$1" && (watch cat) && printf '%s\n' "$1" >> ~/.bash_history && bash || bash
}