Command History and Quick Commands Can Now Dock in the Right Panel
The footer of every terminal tab holds two hard-working buttons: the history icon (command history) and the Q / thunder icon (quick commands). They are useful exactly because they are one click away — and annoying for the same reason: both open floating popups that cover the terminal you are reading.
Since v5.5.35, both panels have two homes. They still live in the footer by default, but either one can be docked into the right side panel — the same column already hosting the AI chat and the session info panel — and moved back whenever you want.
Two panels, two homes
| Command history | Quick commands | |
|---|---|---|
| Footer home (default) | popover above the history icon | floating box above the footer |
| Right-panel home | cmdHistory tab, history glyph in the title |
quickCommands tab, thunder glyph in the title |
| Same content? | Yes — same component, search, sort-by-frequency, clear, save-to-quick-command and multi-terminal run all travel with it | Yes — same component, search, label filter, sort-by-frequency all travel with it |
Under the hood it really is the same component rendered in a different place (inline mode): the docked version drops the trigger/popup chrome and lets the right panel's own container wrap the body, so nothing is a second implementation that can drift.
Moving them
Each panel carries its own move icon in its header, and the two icons are mirror images sitting in the same slot:
- In the footer, the icon is an arrow pointing into a bar on the right — click it and the panel docks into the right side panel.
- Once docked, the icon becomes an arrow pointing into a bar at the bottom — click it and the panel hands itself back to the footer.
The move is always visible, never a vanishing act:
- Sending command history back to the footer re-opens the footer popover right away.
- Sending quick commands back to the footer re-opens the footer box right away.
How the footer buttons behave while docked
Docking does not leave a dead button behind. While a panel lives in the right side panel, its footer button becomes a panel toggle, with the exact same contract as the info and AI buttons:
- Click the footer history icon → the right panel opens on the history tab; click again → it closes. The button shows an active state while its tab is up.
- Click the footer Q icon → the right panel opens on the quick commands tab; click again → it closes, also with an active state.
Close the right panel some other way (its own close button, another tab) and the footer buttons just work — they re-open the right tab.
Details worth knowing
- The choice is remembered. Which home each panel lives in is a persisted preference, so the footer buttons keep landing where you last put the panel after a reload.
- Quick-command pin survives the trip. If the footer box was pinned when you docked it, the pin is kept in the store and comes back with the panel — nothing is silently lost. While docked, the panel drops its own pin/close buttons because the right panel's title bar already owns them, and the layout stops reserving the pinned box's strip of height.
- History popover hygiene. Docking the history panel closes its footer popover on the way out, so no orphaned popup is left pointing at a panel that is no longer there.
- One column, three residents. History, quick commands, AI chat and session info now share the right panel as tabs. Pin the right panel and it becomes a dock — the terminal squeezes aside and your commands stay visible beside the session instead of floating over it.
When to dock, when not to
- Dock when you re-run commands all day: a pinned right panel with history or quick commands beside a wide terminal beats opening and dismissing a popup fifty times.
- Keep the footer when screen width is tight: on narrow windows the overlay popup covers less, and costs nothing when closed.
Either way it is one click to change your mind — that is the whole point.
Next: SSH in Electerm for the sessions these commands run in, or Batch and Mirror Input for sending one command to many terminals at once.