Re: zshzle: aborting history search

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Felix Rosencrantz wrote:
> One thing you might look at is the LASTSEARCH zle parameter.
> 
> I think there is some funkiness with the incremental search widgets like
> history-incremental-search-backward widget that you might have to be careful
> about.  I had an opposite request, take text I typed on the command line and
> make it go into the search buffer.  Bart provided a very helpful solution in 
> a
> thread around zsh-users/3991 (http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2001/msg00401.html
> ).

I reread that... the internal function doisearch() is crying out to
use a special keymap and a recursive edit.  Currently the behaviour is
hardcoded onto certain widgets, which is why trying to get it to do
something unusual is difficult.

Possibly, doing it that way, you could get a better version of
history-incremental-search-backward as a shell function than the current
internal one.  However, there may be things that aren't so easy.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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