Does not work with k in vi mode

[vegerot]

The plugin works fine with arrow keys. However, in normal mode pressing j and k just scrolls through history as if I didn't have the plugin.

Some configuration information if it helps:

plugins=(vi-mode, history-substring-search)
setopt vi
autoload -U edit-command-line
zle -N edit-command-line
bindkey -M vicmd "�" edit-command-line

[alichtman]

Try this:

# Bind j and k for in vim mode
bindkey -M vicmd 'k' history-substring-search-up
bindkey -M vicmd 'j' history-substring-search-down

[vegerot]

@alichtman awesome! Thank you

[alichtman]

No problem! Safe to close this issue?

[vegerot]

Of course!

[vegerot]

@alichtman thanks so much for the suggestion. It worked great (for a while), but I've now found a slight flaw in it. If I'm editing multiple line commands in zsh, trying to navigate up/down lines in normal mode cycles through my history.

The behavior that I'm looking for would be the same behavior I'd get with the arrow keys. Where if I try navigating past the top or bottom line in my command it would cycle through my history, but otherwise would navigate in line mode.

[alichtman]

You could try mapping J and K to history scrolling and leaving j and k mapped normally.

[vegerot]

lol but what if I want to merge lines?

[alichtman]

That’s a good point. I don’t know how to fix that behavior tbh, just throwing out some possible solutions.

[vegerot]

Thank you 🙂