Recently, I’ve been working with Nx/Axon. Training a model can take quite a long time, so I often return to the same IEx session later. However, I couldn’t find a way to search the command history or list all previous commands in IEx. If anyone knows a tool or command that supports listing or searc…

Yup, I know of such a search tool for IEx: ctrl + r :wink: What you are probably missing is having your erlang shell history saved: export ERL_AFLAGS="-kernel shell_history enabled"

Hi, you can also use this: iex --erl “-kernel shell_history enabled -kernel shell_history_file ‘.iex_history’” -S mix With that, you separate histories of your projects that are in different folders.

Oh, nice! I can look back and summarize my commands. :ok_hand:

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Has any tool for search/view history of IEx

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manhvu March 5, 2026, 5:18am 3

Thank you so much! This helps me quickly recall commands