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Can I use Vim editing mode on the command line without losing recursive history search?

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Mar 15, 20262019 views
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I'm uzing zsh and, because I'm an avid Vim user, I just switched to using Vim-style editing on the command line. (That means if I type and decide I want to instead, I can hit to hop back to the beginning and to change to . That's all dandy, but the problem is that I can no longer use to do recursiv…

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Fix for: Can I use Vim editing mode on the command line without losing recursive history search?

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Of course you can no longer use Ctrl+R. If you consult the Z Shell manual you'll see that there's only a key binding for the widget in the keymap. There are no key bindings for it in the vi keymaps. But as you'll also find from reading the manual (I…

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