[Bug]: TUI search shows only 3 months instead of full history? #3060

[dmuiX]

What did you expect to happen?

search duration should be configurable in the options!

say I want every entry until the first one. then it should be able to be configurable there.

What happened?

Can it be that the search duration has changed in one of the latest releases?

For me its just showing 4 Days in host and 3 Months in global, which was not the case some Days ago. I use fulltext search_mode.

I found it out just now as i was searching in my macbook history and was just what the hack where is all of my history.. But it seems the history is still there - I had a look into the sqlite db - atuin isnt showing it per default anymore.

This is to say it plainly really really annoying!!
Especially that I cannot change anything about it!

I can understand that this might have happened because of performance, but then it must stay configurable!
So I can decide nope I want all of them dont give a fuck about performance, or to say hey I want perfomance dont need all entries. In the current state its dissatisfying to me that I DON'T have a CHOICE.

Atuin doctor output

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{
  "atuin": {
    "version": "18.4.0",
    "sync": {
      "cloud": true,
      "records": true,
      "auto_sync": true,
      "last_sync": "2026-01-15 13:05:24.614979 +00:00:00"
    },
    "sqlite_version": "3.46.0"
  },
  "shell": {
    "name": "zsh",
    "default": "zsh",
    "plugins": [
      "atuin"
    ],
    "preexec": "built-in"
  },
  "system": {
    "os": "Darwin",
    "arch": "arm64",
    "version": "26.3",
    "disks": [
      {
        "name": "Macintosh HD",
        "filesystem": "apfs"
      },
      {
        "name": "Macintosh HD",
        "filesystem": "apfs"
      }
    ]
  }
}

╰─❯ atuin doctor                                                                               35°C ─╯
Atuin Doctor
Checking for diagnostics


Please include the output below with any bug reports or issues

{
  "atuin": {
    "version": "18.4.0",
    "sync": {
      "cloud": true,
      "records": true,
      "auto_sync": true,
      "last_sync": "2026-01-15 12:47:25.72771718 +00:00:00"
    },
    "sqlite_version": "3.46.0"
  },
  "shell": {
    "name": "zsh",
    "default": "zsh",
    "plugins": [
      "atuin"
    ],
    "preexec": "built-in"
  },
  "system": {
    "os": "Debian GNU/Linux",
    "arch": "x86_64",
    "version": "13",
    "disks": [
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/nvme0n1p3_crypt",
        "filesystem": "ext4"
      },    
    ]
  }
}

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[ellie]

Are you trying to scroll to the top, or is the search limited to the past 3mo? We limit scrollback for performance reasons, but you should be able to search as much as you'd like

Is your data showing up in atuin history list?