Avoiding expansion with incremental history search

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I was trying out hstr and noticed the recommended way to use it is with bind '"\C-r": "\C-a hstr -- \C-j"'. That works okay, but if you have anything in backticks or any other substitution it will get immediately executed on Ctrl+R, which is probably unexpected...

I guess you could do bind '"\C-r": "\e# history -d -1;hstr -- !!:s^#^^:x\C-j"'

The # should prevent expansion, and then make bash quote it for you...?

I don't know, just a suggestion 😄