and the winner is, this line: . software/fast-syntax-highlighting/fast-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh maybe a bug in the plugin, I will try updating it to the last version regards Pier Paolo Grassi Il giorno mar 11 gen 2022 alle ore 22:53 Pier Paolo Grassi < pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > Il giorno mar 11 gen 2022 alle 22:28 Bart Schaefer < > schaefer@brasslantern.com> ha scritto: > >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:36 AM Pier Paolo Grassi >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, is there some information I can provide about this question? >>> >> >> Version of zsh? >> > > zsh 5.8 (x86_64-pc-linux-musl) > it's the version provided by Roman > > >> Are you ever able to get this to happen starting from "zsh -f" + compinit? >> >> > no, in this case it works as expected > > >> Does this happen e.g. after performing completion on one of the words you >> then kill? >> > > it happens right after opening a new shell > > >> >> Oliver would be the most likely person to have insight here, but he's >> unavailable for several days right now. >> >> Il giorno mar 11 gen 2022 alle ore 00:10 Pier Paolo Grassi < >>> pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto: >>> >>>> Hello, it is sometimes that I have this behaviour: >>>> when I use repeatedly a zle widget like kill-word and then I use yank >>>> to restore the killed text, only the last killed word is returned. >>>> I remember that all the consecutive killed word were returned at once, >>>> and the manual support this: >>>> [...] When repeatedly invoking a kill widget, text is appended to >>>> the cutbuffer instead of replacing it[...] >>>> Is it possible I deactivated this behavior somehow? >>>> >>> >> I don't know of any way to "deactivate this" other than by changing key >> binding or widget definitions. >> > > The key bindings for these widgets are simply > bindkey \Cd kill-word > bindkey \Cy yank > > I somehow have discovered a way, it seems... now I have to try to > understand which config line is causing it > I will update this thread if I make any progress, thanks >