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Re: prepopulate BUFFER

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: prepopulate BUFFER
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:28:30 +0100 (BST)
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> On 29 April 2022 at 14:21 Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello, I was wondering if it is possible to prepopulate $BUFFER before
> rendering the prompt.
> I tried doing so in preexec, but it didn't work. Is there some other
> function I can override to do this?

You need "print -z" --- it has all the usual options of print but the result
ends up in the line buffer when the line editor starts.

pws

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