Re: trivial problem with histverify

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 12/01/2014 06:47 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> It is not intended to verify that "a history command is actually being
> executed."  It is intended to verify that in the text of any command in
> which history was referenced, the correct history reference was made.
>
> For example, suppose you typed
...

I see.  I had the wrong notion. (What a surprise ;-)

> Honestly, how did it ever get that complicated?  Why print -s the words
> into the history and then pull them back out again with "!!" rather
> than just:
>
> bindkey -s '\e[5~' '\C-a history 1 | grep "[[:digit:]]  \C-e"\C-m'
I don't know how it got like that.  It seemed necessary at the time, but 
yours
works just as well, and makes more sense too.  At the time I just wanted it
to work and I haven't  thought about it since.  Looking back, I may have
built it up from this:

# Ctrl+H: put existing command line into history w.o. executing it first.
bindkey -s "^H" '\C-a print -s \C-e\C-m'

... which seems to need the 'print -s' action, so I got it into my head that
that was the only way to get a line into history without ENTER.

Oh, and of course it no longer trips over 'histverify' :-)


     grep-history() {
       (( HISTNO > 1 )) || return
       zle -I
       history 1 | grep --color=auto "[[:digit:]]  $BUFFER"
     }
     zle -N grep-history
     bindkey '\e[5~' grep-history



I haven't done a widget yet, this looks like a good place to start.

Thanks again sir.