From 9e10eab9561ed31fcf48b3fb804213e4139c7713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Schleifer <js@nil.im>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:26:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] zshrc: Switch to vi mode with some emacs bindings

This provides the best of both worlds.
---
 zshrc | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/zshrc b/zshrc
index 9585b13..927bba8 100644
--- a/zshrc
+++ b/zshrc
@@ -17,7 +17,19 @@ FEMALE="no"	# Whether the user is female ;)
 LISTMAX=32768
 WORDCHARS="*?[];!#~"
 
-bindkey -e
+bindkey -v
+# history-incremental-search-backward is much more useful than
+# _history-complete-*
+bindkey "^R" history-incremental-search-backward
+# Add a few other emacs bindings for convenience, as it's sometimes quicker to
+# use those than to switch between modes.
+bindkey "^A" beginning-of-line
+bindkey "^E" end-of-line
+bindkey "^D" delete-char-or-list
+# backward-kill-word behaves more like vim, whereas vi-backward-kill-word is
+# the vi behaviour.
+bindkey "^W" backward-kill-word
+
 setopt no_bg_nice
 setopt no_nomatch
 setopt extended_glob