Re: history expansion bug?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 14,  5:54pm, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
} Subject: Re: history expansion bug?
}
}     aha. those ampersands substitute the pattern. i'm now looking for a
}     way to disable it: backslashing them doesn't seem to have any
}     effect.

Double the backslashes:

schaefer[524] echo foo
foo
schaefer[525] ^echo^print foo \\&\\& bar
print foo && bar foo
foo
zsh: command not found: bar

This is a bug, sort of ... ^x^y is rewritten as !!:s^x^y and re-evaluated,
which causes an extra level of history-backslashes to be stripped.

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