I have mapped alt-k and alt-j for browsing history, but I would like to switch vicmd automatically whenever I call up a history entry, because most of the time I need to move the cursor to a certain position and make some changes.
Here is my current settings in .zshrc, what should I do to reach the goal mentioned above?
bindkey '^[k' up-line-or-history bindkey '^[j' down-line-or-history What you want can be accomplished by just pressing Esc after or Alt+j or Alt+k but if you want to save that 1 keystroke, then adding the following to your .zshrc can help you.
vi-cmd-up-line-history() { zle vi-cmd-mode zle up-line-or-history } zle -N vi-cmd-up-line-history bindkey -M vicmd '^[k' vi-cmd-up-line-history bindkey -M viins '^[k' vi-cmd-up-line-history vi-cmd-down-line-history() { zle vi-cmd-mode zle down-line-or-history } zle -N vi-cmd-down-line-history bindkey -M vicmd '^[j' vi-cmd-down-line-history bindkey -M viins '^[j' vi-cmd-down-line-history What it does is bind new widgets called vi-cmd-down-line-history and vi-cmd-up-line-history to Alt+j and Alt+k. These widgets change the mode to cmd by calling the widget vi-cmd-mode and then fire the down-line-or-history and up-line-or-history respectively.
-M vicmd like bindkey -M vicmd '^[k' vi-cmd-up-line-history I added that as an edit, so try again. ;)