That works.

I do want the executed command to be inserted into history.

I searched the manual in vain for a way to do that. Any chance you could illuminate further?

Thanks

Dave

> Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 
> That's now how it works; accept-line in x1 does not run the command and
> then resume ZLE inside the x2 function, and even if it did it would not
> reprint the prompt in that way.
> 
> All "accept-line" does is assert that the buffer is now in its final
> state, so that after ZLE finishes, the regular shell parser should read
> that line as the input.  However, ZLE does not finish until the current
> active widget has also finished, so if accept-line is run again it can
> still change the previously-accepted buffer.
> 
> You'd need something like this:
> 
> --- 8< ---
> execute-now() {
>   zle -I
>   eval "$BUFFER"
>   BUFFER=
>   zle -R
> }
> 
> zle -N execute-now
> --- 8< ---
> 
> Then replace any "zle accept-line" with "zle execute-now".
> 
> However, *that* does not push the buffer onto the history stack, so even
> more may be necessary depending on what you intend to accomplish.
> 
> -- 
> Barton E. Schaefer
> 
> 
>> On 2015-04-02, at 10:12 AM, Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, that email was flawed. Let me try again.
>> 
>> Below, after sourcing a script, I type ^a then ^b.
>> The ^a works as expected, but not the ^b
>> 
>> There must be something more I have to do besides “accept-line”. But what?
>> 
>> 0 Thu 9:59:38 yost DaveBook ~
>> 206 Z% cat accept-line-test.zsh 
>> function xxx {
>>   BUFFER="$1"
>>   zle -R
>>   zle accept-line
>> }
>> 
>> function x1 {
>>   xxx echo\ 1
>> }
>> 
>> function x2 {
>>   xxx echo\ 2
>>   xxx echo\ 3
>> }
>> 
>> zle -N x1
>> zle -N x2
>> 
>> bindkey ^a x1
>> bindkey ^b x2
>> 0 Thu 9:59:47 yost DaveBook ~
>> 207 Z% source accept-line-test.zsh
>> 0 Thu 9:59:54 yost DaveBook ~
>> 208 Z% echo 1
>> 1
>> 0 Thu 9:59:55 yost DaveBook ~
>> 209 Z% echo 3
>> 3
>> 0 Thu 9:59:59 yost DaveBook ~
>> 210 Z% 
>> 
>> The output I want from ^b is
>> 
>> 0 Wed 0:30:03 yost DaveBook ~
>> 240 Z% echo 2
>> 2
>> 0 Wed 0:30:04 yost DaveBook ~
>> 241 Z% echo 3
>> 3
>> 0 Wed 0:30:04 yost DaveBook ~
>> 242 Z% 
>> 
>> Extra credit:
>> 
>> Is there a way to write a function x3 that calls x2, such that I can issue x3 from the command line get the result above instead of the result below?
>> 
>> 0 Thu 10:04:32 yost DaveBook ~
>> 216 Z% x2
>> xxx:zle:3: widgets can only be called when ZLE is active
>> xxx:zle:3: widgets can only be called when ZLE is active
>> 1 Thu 10:05:55 yost DaveBook ~
>> 217 Z% 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>