Bindings in .zshrc

Bindings in .zshrc

[Hrvoje Niksic]

I want M-p and M-n bound to history-beginning-search-backward and
history-beginning-search-forward respectively, but it doesn't seem to
work in recent versions of zsh.

Zsh version is 3.1.6-pws-12 from Debian potato.  A detailed recipe to
repeat the problem follows.

$ mkdir tst
$ cat > tst/.zshrc
echo start
bindkey '\ep' history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey '\en' history-beginning-search-forward
echo end
^D
$ ZDOTDIR=~/tst zsh
start
end
mraz% bindkey -e        # new zsh, use Emacs-style bindings
mraz% bindkey
...
"^[n" history-search-forward
"^[p" history-search-backward
...

Obviously, the bindings didn't take effect, although .zshrc is read.
If I type it manually, it works:

mraz% bindkey '\ep' history-beginning-search-backward
mraz% bindkey '\en' history-beginning-search-forward
mraz% bindkey 
...
"^[n" history-beginning-search-forward
"^[p" history-beginning-search-backward
...

Re: Bindings in .zshrc

[Zefram]

Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>Obviously, the bindings didn't take effect, although .zshrc is read.

Looks like you're binding those keys in the vi keymap.  Do `bindkey -e'
first, in the .zshrc, to select the Emacs keymap.

-zefram

Re: Bindings in .zshrc

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> >Obviously, the bindings didn't take effect, although .zshrc is read.
> 
> Looks like you're binding those keys in the vi keymap.

Oh.  Yes, you're right.  In fact, I do have `bindkey -e' in my .zshrc,
but at the wrong place, after the bindkeys.  When I move it in front
of them, things work out nicely.

Thanks.