Can I make control-u behavior be the same for ZSH as it is for Bash?

Question

In Bash, control-u will clear from the curser to the beginning of the line, and put that text into the paste buffer, which can be pasted with control-y.

In Zsh, it will clear the text, but does not put it into the buffer.

sadness.

Answer 1

This can be done really easily with just two bindkey commands:

bindkey '^U' backward-kill-line
bindkey '^Y' yank

It may be worth noting that at least '^Y' should be bound in the default Emacs keymap.