Probably too late to get some visibility, but I love this: function my-accept-line() { # check if the buffer does not contain any words if [ ${

Probably too late to get some visibility, but I love this: function my-accept-line() { # check if the buffer does not contain any words if [ ${#${(z)BUFFER}} -eq 0 ]; then # put newline so that the output does not start next # to the prompt echo # check if inside git repository if git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then # if so, execute `git status' git status else # else run `ls' ls -l fi fi # in any case run the `accept-line' widget zle .accept-line } # create a widget from `my-accept-line' with the same name zle -N accept-line my-accept-line # rebind Enter, usually this is `^M' bindkey '^M' accept-line This replaces `enter` (empty command line), with either `ls` or `git status` if in a git repository. This beautifully works as expected, I never got any bug because of this (as this could be expected for low level aliasing), and it does exactly what I'd expect: get current status of the current folder. Now typing `git status` elsewhere is such a pain!