changes to zsh... a few more keybindings plus force a fallback to a simpler term if a more complex one does not exist

zshrc

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ if [[ ${ZSH_VERSION//.} -gt 420 ]] ; then
 	zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic
 fi
 
+autoload -Uz edit-command-line
+zle -N edit-command-line
+
 # disable core dumps
 limit coredumpsize 0
 
@@ -61,6 +64,12 @@ elif ( which gdircolors &> /dev/null ) ; then
 	eval $(gdircolors -b $([ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ] && echo "/etc/DIR_COLORS"))
 fi
 
+case "${TERM}" in
+	xterm-256color)
+		( infocmp $TERM &> /dev/null ) || export TERM=xterm
+	;;
+esac
+
 ( which lesspipe &> /dev/null ) && eval $(lesspipe)
 export LESS=' -R'
 
@@ -122,8 +131,14 @@ alias :wq='exit'
 # keybindings
 bindkey -d
 bindkey -e
+
 bindkey ' ' magic-space
 
+bindkey -M emacs '\ee' edit-command-line
+
+bindkey -M emacs '' history-incremental-search-forward
+bindkey -M emacs '' history-incremental-search-backward
+
 case $TERM in
 	xterm*)
 		bindkey '^[[H' beginning-of-line