Re: incremental history search

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>]

* 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")?

Thorsten