On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 21:48, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > I followed these steps as follows: > > [[[ > $ cd "$(mktemp -d)" > $ tee .zshrc > HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history > HISTSIZE=2000 > SAVEHIST=1000 > autoload -Uz compinit > compinit > zstyle ':completion:*' ignored-patterns '' > > $ yes | head -1001 > .zsh_history > $ ZDOTDIR=$PWD $builddir/Src/zsh -d > % bindkey -e > % > ]]] > > The terminal beeped and no crash happened. > > What's your $ZSH_VERSION and $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL? > $ZSH_VERSION = 5.8 $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL = zsh-5.8-0-g77d203f Could the contents of my histfile have an influence on this? If you do `yes | head -1001 > .zsh_history`, then there is no realistic data in the histfile. I noticed that if I start Zsh without a histfile, then the problem does not occur.