A lot of these tricks come down to knowing there is a better alternative program somewhere out there in the universe, and then installing it. I happen to keep a shell script handy for these situations, which automatically installs most of the options listed here:
More readable presentation: <a href="https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/shell-bling-ubuntu/" rel="nofollow">https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/shell-bling-ubuntu/
Among other things, fzf gets installed with all the proper key bindings, ripgrep, fdfind... basically every papercut I could find between going from a vanilla Ubuntu or Debian box to a configured one is handled in this shell script.
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<a href="https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu
More readable presentation: <a href="https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/shell-bling-ubuntu/" rel="nofollow">https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/shell-bling-ubuntu/
Among other things, fzf gets installed with all the proper key bindings, ripgrep, fdfind... basically every papercut I could find between going from a vanilla Ubuntu or Debian box to a configured one is handled in this shell script.