From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23624 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 15:22:39 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 15:22:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 50496 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 15:22:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 15:22:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 24939 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2005 15:22:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8478 Received: (qmail 24923 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 15:22:21 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 15:22:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 48927 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 15:22:21 -0000 Received: from vinc17.net4.nerim.net (HELO ay.vinc17.org) (62.212.121.106) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 15:22:16 -0000 Received: from lefevre by ay.vinc17.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CzG91-000366-Je; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:15 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Searching for "^" in the history Message-ID: <20050210152215.GE30487@ay.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <20050210141644.GA30487@ay.vinc17.org> <16907.30377.109401.427969@parhasard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <16907.30377.109401.427969@parhasard.net> X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 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). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA