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workaround for PAT_STATIC bug in zsh

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ZSH versions less than 5.3.2 (or 5.4) have a bug that prevents
`history-incremental-pattern-search-backward` for working
correctly (the history stops searching after the first found item).

Closes #407
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Christian Höltje
2017-02-07 12:19:18 -05:00
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@@ -46,10 +46,13 @@ syntax highlighting.
### Does syntax highlighting work during incremental history search?
Highlighting the command line during an incremental history search
(with the `history-incremental-search-backward` widget, which is
bound by default to <kbd>Ctrl+R</kbd> in zsh's emacs keymap) requires zsh 5.3
or newer.
Yes!
If you're using `history-incremental-search-backward` (by default bound to <kbd>Ctrl+R</kbd>
in zsh's emacs keymap) then it works with _zsh version 5.3 and newer_.
If you're using `history-incremental-pattern-search-backward`, then syntax highlighting works
in _zsh 5.3.2 and newer_ due to [a bug in zsh](http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?WORKERNUMBER=40285).
Under zsh 5.2 and older, the zsh-default [underlining][zshzle-Character-Highlighting]
of the matched portion of the buffer remains available, but zsh-syntax-highlighting's