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Can I make Control-U behavior be the same for ZSH as it is for Bash?

In Bash, Ctrl+u will clear from the cursor to the beginning of the line, and put that text into the paste buffer, which can be pasted with Ctrl+y.

In Zsh, it will clear the text, but does not put it into the buffer.

Sadness.

Solution

  • This can be done really easily with just two bindkey commands:

    bindkey '^U' backward-kill-line
bindkey '^Y' yank

    It may be worth noting that at least '^Y' should be bound in the default Emacs keymap.