> On Nov 13, 2019, at 10:41 PM, Danh Doan wrote: > > On 2019-11-13 12:34:35 -0600, Perry Smith wrote: >> With bash, I got into the following habit. If I started typing >> a long command and then decided I didn’t want to execute it right >> now for some reason, I would hit control-A to get back to the start >> of the line and then add a # in front and hit return. >> >> This would put the command into history and so later I could recall >> it, remove the #, and execute the command. > > Not an answer for your question, but this piece of code from grml zsh > config may interest you: > > -------8<----------------------- > > # add a command line to the shells history without executing it > commit-to-history () { > print -s ${(z)BUFFER} > zle send-break > } > zle -N commit-to-history > bindkey -M viins "^x^h" commit-to-history > bindkey -M emacs "^x^h" commit-to-history > > -------8<------------------------ > > With this piece of code in your zshrc, you could press C-x C-h to > commit your current command to history without executing it. Cool! Thanks.