Re: Adding to the history from within a widget

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 3:10 PM dana <dana@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3 Jan 2020, at 05:03, Piers Powlesland <pierspowlesland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If I execute another command in the shell I am then able to see the entry
> > added with 'print -s' by pressing up twice.
> >
> > I'm wondering if you experience the same, possibly this has been fixed in
> > newer versions of zsh?
>
> It's the same in master. I'm not positive, but i don't think it's possible to
> make new history entries actually selectable until the next prompt.

That's essentially correct.  Everything that happens from when zle is
initialized to when it exits (on accept-line or send-break) is part of
the current history event, and up-history moves to the previous event.

What's the end result you're trying to achieve by adding to the
history from your widget?