Pressing up prior to prompt being ready does not properly engage plugin behavior about zsh-history-substring-search

[unphased]

I tried using zsh setopt XTRACE VERBOSE to debug, but it does not seem to emit any tracing when running zsh things triggered by key events (maybe zsh line editor (zle) related stuff? sorry I am not familiar with the zsh lingo or the subsystems...) so I am sort of stuck. I think there might be something related to zle -T that may help me since the docs say "debugging" associated with it a lot, but I don't know how to use this yet.

Actually, scratch that, I just found this. Neat trick!

[josefson]

I would like a solution for this problem as well. I tried fish and i loved that feature.

[unphased]

I can at least report that applying the "neat trick" I linked to above reveals that the zle widget for search up does NOT run in this situation. Do note that everything DOES FUNCTION PROPERLY if the action is bound to Page Up. The mission now is to find out why.

I was hoping I could hack it somehow (and there still may be a way!) but there is simply no way that I can re-wire my brain to use pgup/pgdn instead of arrow up down for navigating shell history.

So my next step was to delve into zsh source code, so that will have to wait a week or so, for me, at least.

Best case scenario is that zsh implements "cleverness" where if it sees "up" it abandons generating delayed fake keypresses. I hope that isnt what it's actually doing, but I also sort of hope it is, so I can take it out to fix the issue.

[josefson]

I dunno what i did. Mine is working. Although i binder to ^p and ^n, which i prefer, but it was also working with up and down. Sorry for the previous comment i guess.

[unphased]

Hmmm interesting. Yeah, i mean it could really be anything, and I have to do minimal-configuration testing to start out anyway and is very likely a configuration problem on my end.

[sunaku]

To rule out differences in configuration, start with zsh -f and then manually source this plugin and configure it as shown in the README. 🎉

[sunaku]

Closing due to no response after 6 months. 👮 Please reopen/comment if you have new information.
Note that I wasn't able to reproduce the issue here (I use a plain old zshrc and this plugin; no OMZ). 😱