vi-history-search-*ward

vi-history-search-*ward

[Sverre Slotte]

Hello!

I just noticed that my newly compiled zsh (2.6-beta14) behaves weirdly
when I do a history search. This may be an intentional feature, the
announcement of which I have missed, but I bring it to your attention
just in case.

In my old shell (2.5.03) I could search using <ESC>/foo , now I need
to do <ESC>?foo .

The reason seems to be a change in the default bindings:

    2.5.03> bindkey -a /
    vi-history-search-backward

    2.6-beta14> bindkey -a /
    vi-history-search-forward

This is indeed logical, but my fingers think this is wrong; they should
prefer to search through history with /. This can easily be
accomplished through an explicit bindkey-statement in my .zshrc-file,
but I feel a proper shell should to the RightThing® by default.

Feature or oversight?

Sverre

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Re: vi-history-search-*ward

[Zefram]

>    2.5.03> bindkey -a /
>    vi-history-search-backward
>
>    2.6-beta14> bindkey -a /
>    vi-history-search-forward
>
>This is indeed logical, but my fingers think this is wrong; they should
>prefer to search through history with /. This can easily be
>accomplished through an explicit bindkey-statement in my .zshrc-file,
>but I feel a proper shell should to the RightThing=AE by default.
>
>Feature or oversight?

Feature.  It is, as you say, more logical: I've been working on making
ZLE's vi mode emulate vi, rather than ksh's vi mode.  If you dislike
this particular binding (and I can see why one might), just rebind it
in your .zshrc.

-zefram