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

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)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 12 years ago
Comments: 79 (9 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix history substring search! https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/1433#issuecomment-44010147 — committed to joeybaker/dotfiles by joeybaker 10 years ago

Most upvoted comments

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.

cchamberlain on Jul 26, 2015

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.

newgene on Mar 7, 2013

Fortunately, there is a workaround.

Put this line to ~/.zshenv:

DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes

cutalion on Dec 5, 2012