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Is there a command for switch to vicmd mode in zsh?

I have mapped alt-k and alt-j for browsing history, but I would like to switch vicmd automatically whenever I call up a history entry, because most of the time I need to move the cursor to a certain ...
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zsh wants to correct vim to .vim

I'm using zsh on Gentoo x64, and when I type sudo vim /path/to/file from my home folder, zsh asks: zsh: correct 'vim' to '.vim' [nyae]? I want to run vim not my .vim folder. How do I fix this? ...
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History-search in zsh working only for commands?

Say I have the following entries in my command history: less documents/doc1.txt less documents/doc2.txt less files/file1.txt less files/file2.txt ls pwd and that I have the following keyboard ...
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Adding more Emacs-like bindings to ZSH's line editor (ZLE)

I have a couple of questions regarding the emacs-like keyboard bindings in Zsh. As background to all the questions: I have Emacs-like keybinding activated with bindkey -e (activated by default) ...
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ZSH: search history on up and down keys?

Currently, I have the following in my .zshrc: bindkey '^[[A' up-line-or-search bindkey '^[[B' down-line-or-search However, this only seems to match the content of my current input before a space ...
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2answers
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Stop ZSH from trying to correct command

$ knife cookbook download recipe zsh: correct 'cookbook' to 'cookbooks' [nyae]? How can I get zsh to stop trying to correct cookbook to cookbooks?? cookbooks is a directory where I run the command ...
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zsh kill Ctrl + Backspace, Ctrl + Delete

How to configure zsh such that Ctrl+Backspace kills the word before point? How to achieve that Ctrl+Delete kills the word after point? I use urxvt as terminal emulator.
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1answer
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zle - I cannot find why Ctrl+R does not work for non-root

The Ctrl+R works for root (well toor) however I cannot find why it does not work for user. User .zshrc: setopt AUTO_CD setopt CORRECT_ALL setopt EXTENDED_GLOB # History SAVEHIST=10000 HISTSIZE=10000 ...
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Using zsh's line editor to wrap around subprocesses

Is it possible to use zsh's built-in line editor (zle) to feed input to a subprocess? That is, I would like to run zlewrap mycommand where zlewrap is a zsh function and mycommand is any program that ...