history-substring-search doesn't work after update to Ubuntu 12.10 [has workaround]

[seriyps]

history-substring-search just doesn't work since I update my distro from 12.04 to 12.10.
I mean that when I type smth, eg ls and press up-arrow button, it shows me last history item, not started from ls.

My .zshrc

$ cat .zshrc | grep -v -E "^# .*"
ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh
ZSH_THEME="clean" # fletcherm
plugins=(git history-substring-search command-not-found)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

ZSH version

$ zsh --version
zsh 5.0.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

[BRMatt]

I've just done a clean install of ubuntu 12.10 on a new machine and this seems to be happening to me too.

ZSH: zsh 5.0.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu), OMZ: 22f827e, dotfiles

[ajpaulson]

Debian Wheezy - same issue - all I did was update oh-my-zsh today (and the issue is present on a server I have running Squeeze)

edit ZSH 4.3.10-14 on the Squeeze machine and 4.3.17-1 on Wheezy

[OffbeatPlanet]

I have this issue too, on two different machines, both on ubuntu 12.10 x64. One of them was an upgrade from 12.04, the other one was a clean install. history-substring-search doesn't work on either.

zsh 5.0.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

[cutalion]

+1, Ubuntu 12.10, clean install.
It seems a zsh bug in Ubuntu - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsh/+bug/1048212

[cutalion]

Fortunately, there is a workaround.

Put this line to ~/.zshenv:

DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes

[OffbeatPlanet]

Great! It works! Thanks cutalion!

[daubman]

When Oh My ZSH updated on my mac (10.8.2) this started happening to me as well =(

[Adarsh-Barik]

Same issue here with unity 12.10. Even work around didn't work for me.

[ranjanashish]

DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes

does not work for me either :(

System: Ubuntu 12.10

[mmacedo]

@cutalion's suggestion worked for me.

[sotte]

Any news here? I have the same problem and the workaround does not work for me.

[ajpaulson]

@sotte the default setup started working for me again except on one machine where I had enabled some plugins that weren't enabled on the working ones. I disabled them and it works out of the box again.

Double check which plugins you have enabled and test if any of them is still breaking it.

[sotte]

Here is my .zshrc. No plugin is enabled. The workaround has no effect.

ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh
ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
#DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes
plugins=(history-substring-search)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

[ajpaulson]

hmm.

What version of ZSH do you have?

What commit of Oh-My-Zsh are you at?

EDIT also - did you comment out the workaround because it had no effect or did you add it already commented?

[sotte]

I tried it with and without the workaround. No effect.

omz is the current version: 615e41b
zsh 5.0.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

[sotte]

I have no problems with Ubutu 12.04 and zsh 4.3.17 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu). The config is the same. The workaround is not activated.

[mogren]

Same problem for me, and setting DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes doesn't help.

[corpix]

Strange that this workaround don't work for some people...I have export DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes in my .zshrc and backward search works perfect for me under Ubuntu 12.10.

On 11.02.2013, at 1:48, Claes Mogren notifications@github.com wrote:

Same problem for me, and setting DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes doesn't help.

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[newgene]

In case it's helpful. I have Ubuntu 12.10, zsh 5.0.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) with the same issue initially.

Putting "export DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes" in .zshrc does not fix the issue.
But putting "DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes" into .zshenv appears solving the problem for me.

Could be related to the order of setting this variable.

[Asmmund]

xubuntu 12.10
updating .zshrc with DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes solved the issue

[Pawka]

Same issue here. Updated to Ubuntu 12.10. Code below doesn't help:

Fixed with adding this into .zshenv (not .zshrc):

DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes

[Asmmund]

did you try putting it in .zshrc and .zshenv ?

On 12 March 2013 09:22, Povilas Balzaravičius notifications@github.comwrote:

Same issue here. Updated to Ubuntu 12.10. Code below doesn't help:

DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes

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[Pawka]

Yes, found solution immediately after posted comment. Editing .zshrc is not required at all. Thanks!

[Asmmund]

editing .zshrc sometimes it works... but shouldn't!
.zshenv is the one to be edited

[mmichelli]

Worked for my ubuntu

[Xqua]

Worked for me THANKS Damn it made my day :D

PS : Linux Mint 14 (based on ubuntu 12.10)

[thuandt]

Worked for me
Ubuntu 13.04, zsh 5.0.0-2ubuntu3

[quasipedia]

@cutalion - Great, it works, many thanks! :)
@robbyrussell - Are you going to make this as part of the installation script? If not, then probably this issue should be closed, as it seems is ubuntu-specific... (or?)

[mrw]

The fix mentioned by @jvf here worked for me on OSX 10.9.2 also!

[AndrewGuenther]

@robbyrussell This issue has been open for a year and a pull request (#2511) ready for about a month now. Any chance on seeing this merged soon?

[mcornella]

#2511 has been merged. Update oh-my-zsh and check that it works, then close the issue.
/cc @seriyps

[seriyps]

Works for me

[billcarroll]

The most recent oh-my-zsh update just broke this for me again on Mac OS 10.9.2

[quasipedia]

@billcarroll - Yeah, for me it broke again too (a few days back actually, but I wouldn't be able to pin-point which update).

If it weren't annoying, it would be funny how often this brakes! :-/

[bgvaughan]

I'm experiencing this issue on Fedora 20, and have been for some months. Adding DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes to .zshenv did not change anything. Moving 'history-substring-search' to the end of the plugin list in .zshrc did not change anything.

I notice that it works fine on NetBSD, through tmux, with TERM=screen.

[zweifisch]

adding

bindkey '\e[A' history-substring-search-up
bindkey '\e[B' history-substring-search-down

after loading omz works for me, with TERM=screen-256color

[joeybaker]

@zweifisch Awesome! That's great, thank you!

FWIW, that also works with TERM=xterm-256color (and through tmux)

[billcarroll]

Is a fix planned for this?

[m6w6]

Here's what I use to make it work again:

# history-substring-search stopped working; see `man terminfo`
# keyboard generates cuu1/cud1 instead of kcuu1/kcud1
bindkey "$terminfo[cuu1]" history-substring-search-up
bindkey "$terminfo[cud1]" history-substring-search-down

[Foxboron]

This bug started to appear for me recently. None of the solutions given above works for me.

[jondlm]

I'm having the same issue. On the latest (96e4e5d) with Mac OSX 10.9.5. Here's my plugin setup:

plugins=(git osx history-substring-search)

Strangely, if I source ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/history-substring-search/history-substring-search.zsh the plugin directly it works just fine. Any thoughts?

[robbyrussell]

Going to close this one out... and hope that it's resolved for folks. (we can open up new issues as necessary)

[gravis]

I'm having this issue since a few days, on Debian, and Mac OS 10.10.3. None of the tips above is working.

[cchamberlain]

For me it appeared to be something I did corrupted the .zcompdump / .zcompdump.zwc files on Mac. I trashed the files and restarted the shell and my issue appears to be gone.

[billcarroll]

broken on OS X again for me after the last update

[akoo1010]

also running into the issue. As m6w6 fix worked:

bindkey "$terminfo[cuu1]" history-substring-search-up
bindkey "$terminfo[cud1]" history-substring-search-down

[donnykurnia]

I'm running just fine in OSX under gnu screen inside iTerm. Try to close all screen and iTerm and start again after update zsh and oh-my-zsh.

[sgsvnk]

This started happening again with zsh recent update. None of the above mentioned suggestions are working. No .zshenv file in my machine.

This is the returned error:
_history-substring-search-end:13: _zsh_highlight: function definition file not found

I don't have zsh-syntax-highlighting folder in my plugins folder ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/. I doubt that _zsh_highlight is supposed to be imported from zsh-syntax-highlighting.

zsh 5.0.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0)
OS X El Capital 10.11.6

Can someone please point me to the solution?

[sgsvnk]

I think _zsh_highlight should be used carefully by checking if it is available. Here is the line reference.

Commenting out this line, works as a workaround for this problem. But I hope there will be a release with the fix.

[shadowhand]

Same error here as what @sgsvenkatesh reported.

[sgsvnk]

@shadowhand The issue as resolved for me a few weeks back after updating zsh to the latest version. You should try it.

[shadowhand]

This happened after upgrading to current master. Appears to have gone away again.

[rajivpoddar]

Same issue on osx. Commenting out the call to _zsh_highlight worked for me. Highlighting works fine even without it.