ZSH Vim Bindings

I was setting up a new computer, and realized when installing zsh that one of the options was adding vim bindings! After a little playing around with config, I ended up with some fancy cursor switching and a much happer shell experience :)

Here’s the relevant sourcecode:

# set vim mode
set -o vi

# Remove mode switching delay.
KEYTIMEOUT=5

# Change cursor shape for different vi modes.
function zle-keymap-select {
  if [[ ${KEYMAP} == vicmd ]] ||
    [[ $1 = 'block' ]]; then
      echo -ne '\e[1 q'

  elif [[ ${KEYMAP} == main ]] ||
    [[ ${KEYMAP} == viins ]] ||
    [[ ${KEYMAP} = '' ]] ||
    [[ $1 = 'beam' ]]; then
      echo -ne '\e[5 q'
  fi
zle -N zle-keymap-select

# Use beam shape cursor on startup.
echo -ne '\e[5 q'

# Use beam shape cursor for each new prompt.
_fix_cursor() {
  echo -ne '\e[5 q'
}
precmd_functions+=(_fix_cursor)

My full config files are available here.