Re: command recall

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2021-02-07 8:56 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:

> ... There are all sorts of reasons for
> this, including being able to have a stable numbering scheme (keys in
> the $history hash table) during computation of zle widgets.
I wondered how that worked.  With half a dozen open terminals, each of 
them accepting
commands at various times, it's quite cool how they all end up in 
chronological order when
merged.  I've tried all sorts of ways to break that but it refuses to be 
fooled.
>
> That's because the order of operations is
> 1) You accept-line, so the pinocchio entry is ready to become a real boy
> 2) Consequently, the history gets merged
> 3) The "history" command executes
This is the tiniest of issues but I was just about to start 
experimenting with making
a widget, which I did once and it worked.  If you had:

....
accept-line
history-beginning-search-backward
....

would that work?  Probably some easy way to force the merge before the 
search, no?
Still it seems intuitive that this should happen anyway.