From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12079 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2004 13:52:42 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Feb 2004 13:52:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 11210 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2004 13:52:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7076 Received: (qmail 11139 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2004 13:52:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Feb 2004 13:52:22 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [80.91.224.249] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 21 Feb 2004 13:52:21 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuXYK-0005Ir-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:52:20 +0100 Received: from isi-dialin-129-139.isionline-dialin.de ([195.158.129.139]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 21 13:52:20 2004 Received: from thorsten by isi-dialin-129-139.isionline-dialin.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 21 13:52:20 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: incremental history search Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:52:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1epb3ga9oumiw$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <1lk8q9de9jvbv.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-139.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de Sender: news * Eric Mangold (2004-02-21 04:07 +0100) > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:35:14 +0100, Thorsten Kampe > wrote: >> * Eric Mangold (2004-02-21 02:17 +0100) >>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:04:00 +0100, Thorsten Kampe >>> wrote: >>>> I have bound[1] the cursor keys to "up-line-or-search" and >>>> down-line-or-search. Unfortunately this only completes the first word >>>> of the search; meaning when I type >>>> >>>> wget http://foo.com >>>> wget ftp://bar.com >>>> >>>> and then... >>>> wget http[up cursor] >>>> ...it completes to "wget ftp://bar.com" and not to the desired "wget >>>> http://foo.com". It only searches matches for the first word ("wget") >>>> of the already typed command line in history. >>>> >>>> Is it possible to make zsh search for matches of the whole command >>>> line ("wget http") - and not only the first word? >>> >>> Yes. I use the following bindings for that. >>> >>> bindkey '\M-p' history-beginning-search-backward >>> bindkey '\M-n' history-beginning-search-forward >> >> Aah, seems like exactly what I want. Are there any functional >> disadvantages compared to "up-line-or-search"/"down-line-or-search" >> (because it seems to me as "history-beginning-search-backward" is a >> superset of "up-line-or-search")? > > I can't think of any disadvantages, [...] Hm, now the cursor stays at the beginning of the command line when I haven't typed anything and press the up cursor - contrary to the movement to the end of the command line with "up-line-or-search". Probably because of the missing "up-line" functionality. It's a bit of a nuisance because I more often change things at the end of a command line than at the beginning but I think the extra functionality of "history-beginning-search-backward" makes it a gain for me though. Thorsten