I have been dealing with this problem for almost a month now, and I feel frustrated, Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to write a widget for my takenote command. The purpose of th...

How to use shift to select part of the commandline (like in many text editors) ?

Can I configure my prompt to show a new line after each command? To give you an example. In the following screenshot I did run cat .zshrc. I want to have a new line between the last output line of...

I want to create a widget bound to a hotkey that prints the current command description in rich text below the prompt, then erases it after a keypress. Like so (simplified): widget() { zle -R &quo...

Sometimes I use multiline commands in zsh: ❯ echo \ > a \ > multiline \ > command When editing the command after pulling it from a history search, I can change the content of individual...

I usually find interesting zsh keybinding settings (through bindkey command) around the web. My question is how do I interpret what these escaped sequences mapped to? For instance, here is a snippe...

Where can I find a list of zsh commands that I can use with bindkey, with descriptions? Each time that I look for name of some standard action (e.g., end-of-line), I need to google and guess that ...

I have the following widget defined function cdd() { cd / } zle -N cdd{,} bindkey "^R" cdd After pressing the key combination the cwd is already changed, but the terminal prompt is not updated....

I am new to ZSH and have been using oh-my-zsh to rum ZSH on OSX 10.9. I've been trying to take an advantage of a history plugin but I get this, "widgets can only be called when ZLE is active." when...

All shells understand these commands: $ cd . $ cd .. And zsh will also understand: $ cd ... $ cd .... Provided you say: $ alias -g ...='../..' $ alias -g ....='../../..' Now, how can I mak...

In my .zshrc, I use the following snippet to integrate the shell's clipboard and my primary X11 clipboard. Thanks to this integration, I can cut-and-paste text to and from emacs, firefox, and the t...

I have a zsh prompt I rather like: it evaluates the current time in precmd and displays that on the right side of the prompt: [Floatie:~] ^_^ cbowns% [9:28:31 on 2012-10-29] However, this isn't...

Its not essential but it bugs me a bit, here is the fragment from my .zshrc a function/widget called add_sudo, that will go at the beginning of line, writes sudo there and then should go at the en...

I have this snippet: insert_sudo () { zle beginning-of-line; zle -U "sudo "; zle end-of-line; } zle -N insert-sudo insert_sudo bindkey "\es" insert-sudo But \es only appends "sudo" to the end of...

I know that I can exec a date command in my zsh prompt. However, it shows the old time; to see the current time, I have to hit <return> and get a new prompt with the current time. Is there a...

Is there a way to modify the command that is about to execute? I would like to redirect the output to a file, as well as print it on the terminal. I found that ls > file.txt | cat does the job,...

Zsh has a nice feature of expanding globs. For example, hitting Tab turns ls **/*.js into ls app/assets/javascripts/application.js vendor/assets/javascripts/Markdown.Converter.js Is there a way ...