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From: Micah Elliott <mde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: vi-mode intuitive history searching
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:58:48 -0800
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Organization: Micah Elliott Himself

I'm trying to make vi-mode history-searching work for my concrete
brain/fingers.  In bash I'm used to just typing: "<Esc>/pattern"
followed by "nnnn".

That's very fast and is intuitive to me.  I've read through the
ML archives a bit on this topic
(http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/1996/msg00666.html), and I still
can't get the bash behavior I'm looking for.  I'm trying:

    bindkey -a / vi-history-search-backward

But now "<Esc>/" gives this scary output:

    zsh: do you wish to see all 1568 possibilities (1568 lines)? 
    > Definitely N!

Am I using bindkey appropriately?

Actually, I can get the desired behavior if I instead type
"<Esc>k/", but I'd really like to avoid the "k".

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