Prezto: Ctrl+r doesn't work

[ruipacheco]

Not sure if this is a zsh issue or a oh-my-zsh customisation.

I had omz and with ctrl+r I could search in history. I've just tried to do that with Prezto and it didn't work.

[bradfeehan]

FWIW this has always worked for me with Prezto.

[stefanosc]

ctrl + r works for me with prezto
On Apr 26, 2014 9:58 AM, "Brad Feehan" [email protected] wrote:

FWIW this has always worked for me with Prezto.

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[ruipacheco]

Still can't get it to work. Used to work just fine with oh-my-zsh, can't get a peep out of it with Prezto.

[sorin-ionescu]

It may be your terminal. Check key bindings.

Enable history-substring-search and use up/down arrow or ^P/^N instead.

[ruipacheco]

I’m sorry but none of these things seem to work.

I’ve enabled history-substring-search and restarted Terminal. Ctrl + r doesn’t work and not sure how to use ^P/^N.

I’m using the latest OSX with the Terminal that ships with it.

On 26 Apr 2014, at 17:16, Sorin Ionescu [email protected] wrote:

It may be your terminal. Check key bindings.

Enable history-substring-search and use up/down arrow or ^P/^N instead.
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[sorin-ionescu]

^ means Control; so, Control + P/N. You can also use the arrow keys. Type something first then hit CTRL + P.

[stefanosc]

Can you try check an alternative terminal to see if you have the same issue?
For example try iTerm 2

That's my default termninal app.
Hope this helps,
Stefano

[ruipacheco]

Just downloaded iTerm2. No Ctrl + r either.

… and suddenly I remembered why I gave up on it years ago - that font :|

On 28 Apr 2014, at 21:21, Stefano Schiavi [email protected] wrote:

Can you try check an alternative terminal to see if you have the same issue?
For example try iTerm 2

That's my default termninal app.
Hope this helps,
Stefano
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Rui Pacheco

[stefanosc]

Ok try this then :

Goto your HomeFolder -> Library -> Preferences and delete the file :
com.apple.terminal.plist

This will reset your terminal app. This way we can determine if it is a
terminal configuration issue or something else.

Before you delete you may want to make a backup copy.

Hope this helps.
Stefano

[ruipacheco]

Quit terminal, deleted the file, restarted terminal, tried to do Ctrl + r again, didn’t work.

On 29 Apr 2014, at 14:55, Stefano Schiavi [email protected] wrote:

Ok try this then :

Goto your HomeFolder -> Library -> Preferences and delete the file :
com.apple.terminal.plist

This will reset your terminal app. This way we can determine if it is a
terminal configuration issue or something else.

Before you delete you may want to make a backup copy.

Hope this helps.
Stefano
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Rui Pacheco

[stefanosc]

I see, I am sorry but at the moment I don't have any additional ideas.
Perhaps someone else can help?

[ruipacheco]

S’ok, I’ll do some more research by myself tomorrow and try to come up with something. Don’t close the case and many thanks for the help!

On 29 Apr 2014, at 15:14, Stefano Schiavi [email protected] wrote:

I see, I am sorry but at the moment I don't have any additional ideas.
Perhaps someone else can help?
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Rui Pacheco

[fuadsaud]

Btw, I recently started using prezto on ubuntu with terminator + tmux and ^R nor ^P/^N will work.

[fuadsaud]

I don't remember if i worked on the mac and I don't have i right now to test it.

[sorin-ionescu]

You can type bindkey -L to list key bindings. It's possible that the terminal emulator or terminal multiplexer is capturing those keys and not sending them to Zsh.

[fuadsaud]

Output for the aforementioned setup (^R seems to be bound to redisplay):

bindkey -R "^A"-"^C" self-insert
bindkey "^D" list-choices
bindkey -R "^E"-"^F" self-insert
bindkey "^G" list-expand
bindkey "^H" vi-backward-delete-char
bindkey "^I" expand-or-complete-with-indicator
bindkey "^J" accept-line
bindkey "^K" self-insert
bindkey "^L" clear-screen
bindkey "^M" accept-line
bindkey -R "^N"-"^P" self-insert
bindkey "^Q" push-line-or-edit
bindkey "^R" redisplay
bindkey -R "^S"-"^T" self-insert
bindkey "^U" vi-kill-line
bindkey "^V" vi-quoted-insert
bindkey "^W" vi-backward-kill-word
bindkey "^X" self-insert
bindkey "^X^R" _read_comp
bindkey "^X^S" prepend-sudo
bindkey "^X?" _complete_debug
bindkey "^XC" _correct_filename
bindkey "^Xa" _expand_alias
bindkey "^Xc" _correct_word
bindkey "^Xd" _list_expansions
bindkey "^Xe" _expand_word
bindkey "^Xh" _complete_help
bindkey "^Xm" _most_recent_file
bindkey "^Xn" _next_tags
bindkey "^Xt" _complete_tag
bindkey "^X~" _bash_list-choices
bindkey -R "^Y"-"^Z" self-insert
bindkey "^[" vi-cmd-mode
bindkey "^[," _history-complete-newer
bindkey "^[/" _history-complete-older
bindkey "^[E" expand-cmd-path
bindkey "^[M" copy-prev-shell-word
bindkey "^[OA" history-substring-search-up
bindkey "^[OB" history-substring-search-down
bindkey "^[OC" forward-char
bindkey "^[OD" backward-char
bindkey "^[Q" push-line-or-edit
bindkey "^[[1~" beginning-of-line
bindkey "^[[2~" overwrite-mode
bindkey "^[[3~" delete-char
bindkey "^[[4~" end-of-line
bindkey "^[[A" up-line-or-history
bindkey "^[[B" down-line-or-history
bindkey "^[[C" vi-forward-char
bindkey "^[[D" vi-backward-char
bindkey "^[[Z" reverse-menu-complete
bindkey "^[e" expand-cmd-path
bindkey "^[m" copy-prev-shell-word
bindkey "^[q" push-line-or-edit
bindkey "^[~" _bash_complete-word
bindkey -R "^\\\\"-"^_" self-insert
bindkey " " magic-space
bindkey -R "!"-"~" self-insert
bindkey "^?" backward-delete-char
bindkey -R "\M-^@"-"\M-^?" self-insert

[fuadsaud]

btw, this list is awesome. I wasn't aware of many of these bindings :O

[ruipacheco]

But why would this work with oh-my-zsh and not Prezto?

On 29 Apr 2014, at 16:11, Sorin Ionescu [email protected] wrote:

You can type bindkey -L to list key bindings. It's possible that the terminal emulator or terminal multiplexer is capturing those keys and not sending them to Zsh.
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[sorin-ionescu]

Look at the list, what does it say for ^R?

[pablox-cl]

# .zpreztorrc file
# Set the Prezto modules to load (browse modules).
# The order matters.
zstyle ':prezto:load' pmodule \
  'environment' \
  'terminal' \
  'editor' \
  'history' \
  'directory' \
  'spectrum' \
  'utility' \
  'completion' \
  'archive' \
  'syntax-highlighting' \
  'prompt' \
  'git' \
  'helper' \
  'history-substring-search' \
  'fasd' \
  'ruby'

$ bindkey -L
...removing output...
bindkey "^R" history-incremental-search-backward

Are you sure you are using the correct modules and in the correct order?

[pablox-cl]

Another thing, when I come into this kind of issues, I do some really dumb "logging", for example, before loading prezto I write something like:

### .zshrc
echo 'before load prezto:  ' > $HOME/log.before
bindkey -L >> $HOME/log.before
# Source Prezto.
if [[ -s "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto/init.zsh" ]]; then
  source "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto/init.zsh"
fi
echo 'after load prezto:  ' > $HOME/log.after
bindkey -L >> $HOME/log.after

That way by trial and error I can found if something was changed before/after prezto, and then you can do the same with the modules.

Another alternative is doing something like:

set -x
exec 2>$HOME/log

(I'm doing that from memory, but that's the idea, you basically output everything to a log file, and you can get the pretty "debug" zsh has).

[ruipacheco]

I've installed Prezto on a laptop that never had oh-my-zsh before and ctrl

• r works just fine. I assume it's some sort of incompatibility.

On 3 May 2014 18:19, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini <
[email protected]> wrote:

Another thing, when I came into this kind of issues, I do some really dumb
"logging", for example, before loading prezto I write something like:

.zshrc

echo 'before load prezto: ' > $HOME/log.before
bindkey -L >> $HOME/log.before

Source Prezto.

if [[ -s "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto/init.zsh" ]]; then
source "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto/init.zsh"
fi
echo 'after load prezto: ' > $HOME/log.after
bindkey -L >> $HOME/log.after

That way by trial and error I can found if something was changed
before/after prezto, and then you can do the same with the modules.

Another alternative is doing something like:

exec > logfile.log
set -x

(I'm doing that from memory, but that's the idea, you basically output
everything to a log file, and you can get the pretty "debug" zsh has).

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Rui Pacheco

[sorin-ionescu]

Delete your terminal preferences to have them recreated, or transfer terminal preferences from the new machine to the old machine.

[bcachet]

Hello,

I also have the problem as soon as I use the _vi_ key mapping style (zstyle ':prezto:module:editor' key-bindings 'vi)'

Which is expected because backward search is mapped to _?_ key in normal mode.
But in _vi_ key mapping style, after entering normal mode with _echap_ key and after starting backing search with _?_ key, I don't find a way to navigate to older commands with given search pattern (hitting Ctrl-R several time in emacs mode allow you to select oldest command).

Bertrand

[feliesp]

I had this same issue and thanks to @bcachet comment I found this:
http://zshwiki.org/home/zle/bindkeys#why_isn_t_control-r_working_anymore
I added those two lines to my zsh config and now everything seems to be working.

[ootoovak]

Thanks @bcachet I was having the same issues as @ruipacheco and turns out it was because I had set my bindings to vi rather than emacs. :smile:

[lsd]

As stated above, if hitting ^R doesn't do anything (OS X) and hitting ^A or ^E display the literal characters instead of jumping to the beginning and end of the current cmd you're typing, respectively, you probably have zstyle ':prezto:module:editor' key-bindings set to vi instead of emacs.

In ~/.zprezto/runcoms/zpreztorc, set:
zstyle ':prezto:module:editor' key-bindings 'emacs'

[zoeesilcock]

This article has workarounds for the keybindings in case you want to continue using the vi bindings.

[gabamnml]

I fix with this key bindings in .zshrc

bindkey -M viins '^r' history-incremental-search-backward
bindkey -M vicmd '^r' history-incremental-search-backward

[soooooot]

thanks @gabamnml !! you saved my life!
I'm working on iterm2 with oh-my-zsh and I enabled set -o vi, your solution works for me.
btw, I'm not using presto, so I think it's not a presto issue.

[gabamnml]

@soooooot mmm.. freak, because to my left me to work when installed Prezto because before with Oh My Zsh works. I'm glad you now work. I went also to be happy after doing this.

[fisherMartyn]

I solve the problem by deleting vi-mode in my .zshrc, with these codes, ctrl + r not work:
plugins=(git autojump tmux vi-mode)

[theduke]

For anyone wondering how to make Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P work again also in vi mode:

bindkey '^N' down-line-or-history
bindkey '^P' up-line-or-history

[ccwanggl]

Add 'bindkey -e' to .zshrc file to solve ctrl + a command does not work issue.