# Menu-driven alternative to history-beginning-search-backward. # As it uses a menu there is no sense of "forward" or "backward", however; # the entire history is searched. # # Configuration: # autoload -Uz history-beginning-search-menu # zle -N history-beginning-search-menu # bindkey '\eP' history-beginning-search-menu # # Example: # % /bin/su # Enter digit: # 1 /bin/su -c 'make install' 4 /bin/su - perforce # 2 /bin/su 5 /bin/su -c # 3 /bin/su -c 'chown pws:pws **/*(u0)' # # Typing "1" expands the line to # % /bin/su -c 'make install' # # With a prefix argument, the search is not anchored to the beginning, # so for example "/su" could expand to "p4 files //depot/support/..." # # If this is bound to a widget containing "-end", e.g. # zle -N history-beginning-search-menu-end history-beginning-search-menu # then the cursor is put at the end of the line, else it is left # after the matched characters. # # If this is bound to a widget containing "-space", then any space in # the line so far is matched as a wildcard. (This means putting a space # at the start of the line is equivalent to specifying a prefix # argument.) emulate -L zsh setopt extendedglob zmodload -i zsh/parameter local -aU matches local -a display local search=$LBUFFER MATCH MBEGIN MEND search=${search//(#m)[\][()\\*?#<>~^]/\\$MATCH} if [[ $WIDGET = *-space* ]]; then # We need to quote metacharacters in the search string # since they are otherwise active in the reverse subscript. # We need to avoid quoting other characters since they aren't # and just stay quoted, rather annoyingly. search=${search// /*} fi if (( ${+NUMERIC} )); then matches=(${(o)history[(R)*${search}*]}) else matches=(${(o)history[(R)${search}*]}) fi # Filter out any match that's the same as the original. # Note this isn't a pattern this time. matches=(${matches:#${LBUFFER}}) integer n=${#matches} integer width=${#n} (( n == 0 )) && return 1 # Hey, this works... integer i display=(${matches/(#m)*/${(l.$width..0.):-$((++i))} $MATCH}) zle -R "Enter digit${${width##1}:+s}:" $display integer i local char chars # Hmmm... this isn't great. The only way of clearing the display # appears to be to overwrite it completely. I think that's because # displaying strings in this way doesn't set the completion list # properly. display=(${display//?/ }) # Abort on first non-digit entry instead of requiring all # characters to be typed (as "read -k$width chars" would do). for (( i = 0; i < $width; i++ )); do read -k char if [[ $char != [[:digit:]] ]]; then zle -R '' $display return 1 fi chars+=$char done if [[ $chars -eq 0 || $chars -gt $n ]]; then zle -R '' $display return 1 fi integer newcursor if [[ $WIDGET != *-end* ]]; then if (( ${+NUMERIC} )); then # Advance cursor so that it's still after the string typed local -a match mbegin mend if [[ $matches[$chars] = (#b)(*${LBUFFER})* ]]; then newcursor=${#match[1]} fi else # Maintain cursor newcursor=$CURSOR fi fi # Find the history lines that contain the matched string and # go to the last one. This allows accept-line-and-down-history etc. # to work. local -a lines local matchq=${matches[$chars]//(#m)[\][()\\*?#<>~^]/\\$MATCH} lines=(${(kon)history[(R)$matchq]}) HISTNO=$lines[-1] if (( newcursor )); then CURSOR=$newcursor elif [[ $WIDGET = *-end* ]]; then CURSOR=${#BUFFER} fi zle -R '' $display