I don't think I've relied too heavily on bash's history feature in the past, because often what I needed to recall wasn't there. The reason why is that if you have multiple bash shells, by default each one rewrites the entire...
"Meta dot" or Alt+. is a really useful bash shortcut key that I've come to appreciate lately. It brings up the last command-line argument of the last command that you used (sort of like !$ but less of a gamble) and you can hit it...