Comment by xucheng

Many years ago, I reported an issue where iTerm2 leaks sensitive search history to preference files [1]. The issue was quickly fixed. But until this day, I can still find people unintentionally leak their search history in public dotfiles repos [2].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/8491

[2]: https://github.com/search?q=NoSyncSearchHistory+path%3A*.pli...