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I recently switched to zsh (finally) and am loving it!
So far one thing that I am missing is ctrl-R to do incremental history search.
I have the history set up properly 

HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history

and I used vi key bindings

bindkey -v

But ctrl-R does not work. It removes the line above the current line, which is not the behavior it should have in vim either.

Any suggestions?

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btw a quick work-around is to use non-incremental search: Ctrl+[ / ... – maxschlepzig Jan 27 '12 at 14:16

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If I recall correctly, you need to explicitly set it, even with bindkey -v. Use something like the following:

bindkey -v
bindkey ^R history-incremental-search-backward
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perhaps history-incremental-pattern-search-backward is an alternative action to use in that context. – maxschlepzig Jan 27 '12 at 14:18
@maxschlepzig sorry what is the difference between the two? – Ali Jan 27 '12 at 15:34
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@Ali, with the -pattern- versions you can use search-patterns (which style, i.e. globbing or regex (?) depends on other parts of your zsh-configuration) - like e.g. you can use the search-pattern fo*bar with grep to match 'fobar', 'foobar', 'fooobar' etc. – maxschlepzig Jan 27 '12 at 21:03

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