[Grml] zsh history completion via arrow keys

[John]

> Heh.  Sorry for not reading your first posting thoroughly enough.

> 
> From the zshcontrib(1) manual:
> 
>      up-line-or-beginning-search, down-line-or-beginning-search
>           These  widgets are  similar  to  the builtin  functions
>           up-line-or-search  and  down-line-or-search:  if  in  a
>           multiline  buffer  they  move  up or  down  within  the
>           buffer,  otherwise  they  search  for  a  history  line
>           matching the start of the  current line.  In this case,
>           however,  they  search for  a  line  which matches  the
>           current line up to the  current cursor position, in the
>           manner    of   history-beginning-search-backward    and
>           -forward, rather than the first word on the line.
> 
> So, you'd probably need something along the lines of this:
> 
>   autoload -Uz up-line-or-beginning-search
>   autoload -Uz down-line-or-beginning-search
>   bindkey '\eOA' up-line-or-beginning-search
>   bindkey '\e[A' up-line-or-beginning-search
>   bindkey '\eOB' down-line-or-beginning-search
>   bindkey '\e[B' down-line-or-beginning-search


OK!  I placed those 6 lines in my ~/.zshrc.local and resourced the config file.  The key mapping seems intact:

% bindkey '"^[[A" up-line-or-beginning-search

But if I attempt to use the uparrow now, I get:

% vim ~/                                                                                                   :( 
No such widget `up-line-or-beginning-search'

You thoughts are welcomed and thank you.