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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Searching for "^" in the history
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050210152215.GE30487@ay.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16907.30377.109401.427969@parhasard.net>

On 2005-02-10 15:58:49 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
>  Ar an deichiú lá de mí Feabhra, scríobh Vincent Lefevre: 
> 
>  > How can one search for the character "^" in the history (with
>  > history-incremental-search-backward)? I've tried by escaping it
>  > with \ but this doesn't work.
> 
> C-r C-v ^
> 
> (That is, precede it with a call to the command quoted-insert.)

This doesn't work (quoted-insert is for special characters in the
terminal sense, ^ is a special character for the history search).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-10 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-10 14:16 Vincent Lefevre
     [not found] ` <16907.30377.109401.427969@parhasard.net>
2005-02-10 15:22   ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2005-02-10 18:08 ` Wayne Davison
2005-02-11  0:09   ` Vincent Lefevre

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