⚙️ Editing Workbench

z-shell/zsh-editing-workbench

Organized shortcuts for various command line editing operations, plus new operations as incremental history word completion.

Incremental history word completing is started with Alt-h/H or Option-h/H on Mac.

Install Zsh Editing Workbench

Zi

Add the following to .zshrc. The config files will be available in ~/.config/zew.

~/.zshrc

zi load z-shell/zsh-editing-workbench

Zgen

Add zgen load z-shell/zsh-editing-workbench to .zshrc and issue a zgen reset (this assumes that there is a proper zgen save construct in .zshrc). The config files will be available in ~/.config/zew.

Standalone

After extracting ZEW to {some-directory} add the following two lines to ~/.zshrc:

~/.zshrc

fpath+=( {some-directory} )source "{some-directory}/zsh-editing-workbench.plugin.zsh"

Configuring terminals

XTerm

To make Alt key work like expected under XTerm add XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true to your resource file, e.g.:

echo 'XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true' >> ~/.Xresources