Comment 0 for bug 1048212

My .zshrc file contains the lines

bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey "^[[B" history-beginning-search-forward

to do a incremental forward/backward search. This stopped working upon installing Ubuntu 12.10.

To make sure that this is not caused by a broken configuration I did a clean install in VirtualBox where I was able to reproduce the problem.

What I found out is that searching using up/down keys does work in zsh-beta and zsh-static but NOT in zsh (installed versions etc. see below). Binding the function to different keys also works.

hsp-VirtualBox% dpkg -l|grep zsh
ii zsh 5.0.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 shell with lots of features
ii zsh-beta 4.3.17-dev-0+20120621-1ubuntu1 amd64 A shell with lots of features (dev tree)
ii zsh-lovers 0.8.3-0ubuntu2 all tips, tricks and examples for the zsh
ii zsh-static 5.0.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 shell with lots of features (static link)

hsp-VirtualBox% lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

hsp-VirtualBox% cat .zshrc
HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000
bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey "^[[B" history-beginning-search-forward
hsp-VirtualBox%