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I use and love the same mechanism with a different binding though:

  bindkey '^P' up-line-or-search
  bindkey '^N' down-line-or-search
Using Ctrl - P or Ctrl - N on an empty command line will just cycle through all your past commands. Now if the line begins by vim, then pressing Ctrl - P will cycle just through all your previous vim commands Greatness!



I like your key bindings even better! However, I still prefer the "beginning-search" instead of just the "search" function:

    bindkey '^P' history-beginning-search-backward    
    bindkey '^N' history-beginning-search-forward
It works and I don't see a downside to this: ^P and ^N still work as expected.

(Why not the cursor keys? Because then you need to take your fingers off the home row.)




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