ZSH bind a key to reload your RVM config

I'm working on a project that is in the process of upgrading from rails 2 to rails 3. Because I'm switching branches I have to frequently reload my RVM configuration to switch between 1.8.7 and 1.9.3 so I wanted an easier way to do it.

I wrote a function that will just cd out and back into my directory causing the normal hooking / loading mechanisms.


function reload-dir () {
  cd ../
  cd $OLDPWD
  zle .accept-line
}

zle .accept-line is a zsh built-in that is the equivalent of pressing enter.

This was a new concept for me, but I can really see some power there. You can read more about it in section 4.7.3 http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguide04.html#l76

Having the function is nice, but I want to bind it to a key Ctrl+R

zle -N reload-dir

This again uses that zle built-in to register our function so that we can bind it with

bindkey '^r' reload-dir

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