Re: bindkey vi esc / k - beginning of line hatred

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:55:15 +0200 (CEST)
> "Jerry Rocteur" <macosx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > >> 2) When I hit esc / xyz to search through my history for soemthing, nothing i
> > >> s echoed to the screen. That is mildly
> > >> annoying.
> > >
> > > You should get a prompt "?" and the letters you type immediately below
> > > the line.
> > 
> > 
> > Nope, when I hit esc nothing happens, I start typing nothing happens, I
> > hit return and zsh searches my history for what I typed in the blind.
> 
> This sounds like a bug, but I haven't heard of it before.

If 'singlelinezle' is set, the user won't get that sort of feedback.

If TERM is set to 'dumb', it won't work either; but I guess that's not
a bug, but a lack of features in the terminal.

Regards, Frank

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