Cursor should move to the end of line when using up/down arrows to look at previous commands

[oars]

[jeffreytse]

Hi @oars

In fact, the cursor will be move to the end of line when using up/down arrows to look at previous commands. But this is weird your side didn't reach this result. Could you provide me further instructions?

Thanks and regards

[oars]

Thanks, for some reason in my case the cursor is at the start of the previous commands, not at the end.

[1m0d]

I have the same problem, up arrow correctly pastes in previous command, but cursor stays at the beginning of the line. ctrl-p works correctly.

[jeffreytse]

Hi @1m0d

👍 Thanks for the reporting, I'll try to figure out this issue. Any progress I will update here. Also welcome to star this project for further updates in the future.

Thanks and regards

[jeffreytse]

Hi @1m0d

In fact, the Arrow Up/Down is for partial history search feature, that is the same beginning (based at cursor) of commands in history (#15), if you just want to move to previous command in the history, you should use ctrl-p or k (just available in normal mode).

Thanks and regards

[1m0d]

By default up arrow is set to up-line-or-history in zsh which you overwrite to history-beginning-search-backward, which has an alternative history-search-backward in which the cursor goes to the end of the line. I do not recommend overwriting default keybinds, but if you do I recommend using history-search-backward so the cursor goes to the end of the line as expected by default.

In case this does not get changed users can just put

bindkey "^[[A" up-line-or-history
bindkey "^[[B" down-line-or-history

or

bindkey "^[[A" history-search-backward
bindkey "^[[B" history-search-forward

to their .zshrc if they want the cursor to go to the end of line.

Edit: Unfortunately even if you set it in .zshrc, the plugin overwrites the bindings.

[jeffreytse]

Hi @1m0d

Thank you for your detailed explanation, I will consider your comments carefully. You should execute your custom keybindings after this plugin initialized (See here).

Thanks and regards

[1m0d]

Yes, I missed that part, thank you.

[jeffreytse]

Hi @1m0d @oars

This commit 84b88a4 has revert the bindings of Arrow Up/Down to the default, as that's what most Vi users will expect. And you don't need to do the bindings again in zvm_after_init function.

Thanks and regards

[jeffreytse]

Hi @oars

Could you have a check with the latest version for this issue? And the issue will be closed if there is no more requests.

Thanks and regards

[pawurb]

Edit: Unfortunately even if you set it in .zshrc, the plugin overwrites the bindings.

@1m0d I've managed to fix this behaviour by adding the following at the end of my .zshrc

zvm_after_init_commands+=("bindkey '^[[A' up-line-or-search" "bindkey '^[[B' down-line-or-search")

[jeffreytse]

Edit: Unfortunately even if you set it in .zshrc, the plugin overwrites the bindings.

@1m0d I've managed to fix this behaviour by adding the following at the end of my .zshrc

zvm_after_init_commands+=("bindkey '^[[A' up-line-or-search" "bindkey '^[[B' down-line-or-search")

@pawurb, In case of something incompatible, I suggest you use the zvm_bindkey command to do the binding as the document snippet.