From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Searching for "^" in the history
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:09:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050211000941.GM30487@ay.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050210180800.GA1912@blorf.net>
On 2005-02-10 10:08:00 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:16:44PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > How can one search for the character "^" in the history (with
> > history-incremental-search-backward)?
>
> The only way is to not put it as the first character in the search
> string -- i.e. to search for the character prior to the "^" as well
> as the "^" itself.
The problem is that I don't know this character.
> Yeah, that means that there is no way to search for just a "^" in
> zsh's current code. In the future it might be nice to upgrade the
> incremental search to a regex-understanding search like vim uses (it
> treats invalid regex elements as literal strings, so you can eaily
> search for something like "[" or "$" without having to backslash
> it).
Or could zsh be modified so that searching for ^^ (at the beginning of
the search string) is like searching for the ^ character? I doubt that
searching for the ^ character as the first character of a command (as
^^ currently does) is really useful.
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