Re: A ZLE widget for calculator

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 03/02/2026 19:38 GMT Vincent Bernat <bernat@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Does adding "print -s <line>" to the function work?
> 
> This is already there. It works. If I hit return, then up, it works. But 
> if I press only up, it does not. It seems accept-line widget is needed 
> for the line to be added to the history.

Indeed, I wasn't looking very hard.  I guess it's the same basic issue
that this use case hasn't been thought through before.

Changing the reorded history compared with what's actually executed
seems a reasonable thing to have, given all the other things you can do
with history.

> > (I was thinking about getting the shell to ignore the line executed as
> > well --- there are features for this --- but it's not quite smooth as
> > the line does hang around until after you execute something else, so
> > doesn't look like that would be what you want.  But maybe you now have
> > enough anyway...)
> 
> I can prefix with a space if that's what you mean, but in this case 
> pressing up just after will recall this instance (which is quoted). So, 
> yes, this is not as smooth as I would like.

There are other ways, such as the HISTORY_IGNORE variable and returning
1 from zshaddhistory(), but they all have the same issue.

pws