Can't get the plugin to work about zsh-history-substring-search HOT 7 CLOSED

Even if the README says Ubuntu 12.04 users have to bind keys differently (and I'm on OSX), I found that binding ^[[A and ^[[B works for me.

Closing for now, but you may want to update the README.

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Same problem with Fedora 21.
Binding ^[[A and ^[[B works.
You may want to update README.md

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@RGBD done in c4a8356, thanks! 👍

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This isn't necessarily a platform-dependent problem per se; it depends on whether zsh has been customized to set the cursor keypad to application mode while ZLE is active. The current Oh My Zsh and some Linux distros do so; the default is to not. The terminfo entries for the arrow keys and home/end only apply to their behavior in application cursor mode, not default cursor mode. (See man terminfo.) Those platforms or systems where you're seeing the need to fall back to hardcoded values instead of terminfo entries are those where they have the default zsh behavior of leaving the terminal in normal cursor mode while ZLE is active.

The behavior may also vary depending on what terminal and $TERM value you are using.

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@apjanke can you point to where OMZ sets mentioned ZLE customization? I don't use OMZ, but want to replicate similar behavior in my dotfiles.

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Sure. It's done by using echoti smkx/rmkx in zle-line-init and zle-line-finish. This is set up in lib/key-bindings.zsh in the core OMZ code. You'll also need to do a zmodload zsh/terminfo first to make $terminfo available.

if (( ${+terminfo[smkx]} )) && (( ${+terminfo[rmkx]} )); then
  function zle-line-init() {
    echoti smkx
  }
  function zle-line-finish() {
    echoti rmkx
  }
  zle -N zle-line-init
  zle -N zle-line-finish
fi

My personal thinking is coming around to the idea that zsh extensions and "plugins" that bind cursor keys (up/down/left/right/home/end) should bind both the $terminfo[kc*] sequence and the corresponding hardcoded xterm normal-mode cursor sequence (^[[A, ^[[B, ^[[C, ^[[D, ^[[H, ^[[F), so they work regardless of whether the user's zsh is configured to use application keypad mode while editing the command line. I haven't tested this much though, so I don't know if there are gotchas in practice.

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Thanks for detailed explanation, got it working for me.

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