How do I make Escape exit the menu and discard my selection?

[K4LCIFER]

What do you want?

When scrolling through the command history it would be nice to have a quick way to escape from the search which would also clear the command text. I would propose hitting <esc> as an option.

Why do you want this?

Currently its a little inconvenient, as if you're searching through the history and want to get out, you have to hit <tab> on an item and then delete the command text.

Who else would benefit from this?

I think everyone. It would be a QOL improvement.

Explain in detail how you would expect this to work

Given the following situation:

• You're scrolling through the history menu, and you decide that you want to delete the command and start over

When I perform the following steps:

1. Hit the <esc> key.

Then I expect the following to happen:

• The history search is exited and the previously autocompleted command from the search is cleared.

[marlonrichert]

Just add this to your .zshrc file:

bindkey -M menuselect -s '^[' '^G^_'

Note that this won't work correctly when you're in the middle of doing a multi-select.