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Re: Searching for "^" in the history

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Searching for "^" in the history
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:22:15 +0100
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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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References:
- Searching for "^" in the history
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