On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:30 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > what I'd like is to be able to search a shared history but have my up > arrow use just the history in my current terminal. Is that possible? > Yes, that's possible. I do something similar, where I have Ctrl-P/Ctrl-N only go through local history (I leave up/down arrow going through the shared history). bindkey '^p' up-line-or-local-history bindkey '^n' down-line-or-local-history up-line-or-local-history() { zle set-local-history 1 zle up-line-or-history zle set-local-history 0 } zle -N up-line-or-local-history down-line-or-local-history() { zle set-local-history 1 zle down-line-or-history zle set-local-history 0 } zle -N down-line-or-local-history If you change that to bindkey the arrows, you'll get what you want. ..wayne..