thanks, I ended doing it like this:

zle-line-init(){
    [[ -n $__precmd_buffer ]] && {
        BUFFER=$__precmd_buffer
        CURSOR=$__precmd_cursor
    }
}

and storing the current line and cursor position with:

set_precmd_buffer() {
    __precmd_buffer=$BUFFER
    __precmd_cursor=$CURSOR
}
zle -N set_precmd_buffer set_precmd_buffer
bindkey "^X^[e" set_precmd_buffer

best regards!

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno ven 29 apr 2022 alle ore 16:25 Peter Stephenson <
p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> ha scritto:

> > On 29 April 2022 at 15:18 Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > actually I have another question, is there a similar way of setting the
> > initial cursor position like I would do setting the CURSOR var in zle
> > widgets?
>
> As long as something else hasn't already taken over zle-line-init, you
> can do something like
>
> zle-line-init() {
>   if (( set_cursor )); then
>     (( CURSOR = set_cursor ))
>     set_cursor=0
>   fi
> }
> zle -N zle-line-init
>
> then you can use it like
>
> print -z "foo bar"; typeset -gi set_cursor=4
>
> pws
>