It's a lot of comments, the amount of code isn't actually too much!

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:54 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:00 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a big fan of history-substring-search, which lets you type any
> portion of a command and just hit ↑ and scroll through the matches.  No
> need for Ctrl+R keyboard combo, just arrow keys.
> >
> > https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
>
> Wow, what a lot of code.  I think enabling isearch highlighting and
> using my widget (duplicated to be able to search forward as well)
> would cover 80% of this.  A couple of checks for whether to stick a ^
> or a * at the front of the search pattern would cover another 10%.
>