From: Eric Mangold <teratorn@world-net.net>
To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: incremental history search
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:07:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <opr3o9mvf9i4eeqj@mail.oaktech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tz5arqib9xr$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de>
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:35:14 +0100, Thorsten Kampe
<thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
> * Eric Mangold (2004-02-21 02:17 +0100)
>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:04:00 +0100, Thorsten Kampe
>> <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
>>> I have bound[1] the cursor keys to "up-line-or-search" and
>>> down-line-or-search. Unfortunately this only completes the first word
>>> of the search; meaning when I type
>>>
>>> wget http://foo.com
>>> wget ftp://bar.com
>>>
>>> and then...
>>> wget http[up cursor]
>>> ...it completes to "wget ftp://bar.com" and not to the desired "wget
>>> http://foo.com". It only searches matches for the first word ("wget")
>>> of the already typed command line in history.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to make zsh search for matches of the whole command
>>> line ("wget http") - and not only the first word?
>>
>> Yes. I use the following bindings for that.
>>
>> bindkey '\M-p' history-beginning-search-backward
>> bindkey '\M-n' history-beginning-search-forward
>
> Aah, seems like exactly what I want. Are there any functional
> disadvantages compared to "up-line-or-search"/"down-line-or-search"
> (because it seems to me as "history-beginning-search-backward" is a
> superset of "up-line-or-search")?
I can't think of any disadvantages, but the authoritative place to look
is chapter 17.6.2 @ http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Doc/Release/zsh_17.html
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-21 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 23:04 Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-20 23:20 ` Björn Lindström
2004-02-21 0:54 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 1:19 ` Philippe Troin
2004-02-21 2:43 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 1:17 ` Eric Mangold
2004-02-21 1:35 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 3:07 ` Eric Mangold [this message]
2004-02-21 13:52 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 14:39 ` Anthony Iano-Fletcher
2004-02-21 15:50 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 19:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-11 23:50 ` Thorsten Kampe
2004-02-21 23:56 ` Eric Mangold
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