Years ago I created a widget that allows me to accept a line without committing it to the history: execute_no_history(){ fc -p /dev/null ________tmp___restore_history=1 zle accept-line } and my precmd contains: precmd(){ [[ $________tmp___restore_history -eq 1 ]] && { unset ________tmp___restore_history fc -P } } now I noticed that when I execute it as a non-privileged user, I get: precmd:3: locking failed for /dev/null: permission denied So I wonder, what would be a better implementation? Pier Paolo Grassi