'\0' at the beginning of search acts as '!'

Egoist

Steps to reproduce:
make sure your search includes \0 at the beginning.
e.g: "\0 escape sequence"
Kagi will automatically redirect to the first result, which is how bang works.

Expected behavior:
Show search results

Debug info:

Librewolf/MacOS Monterey/US-EAST

Edit: it appears to have the same effect when using other escape sequences such as \r, so it's the '\' causing this

z64

Egoist To clarify, this is a feature - \ is synonymous with ! query etc.; DuckDuckGo behaves the same way with this search, which is where the idea came from.

In order to change this, I believe we would have to either:

Easily identify some hueristic in this query that this is not what was wanted
Explicit syntax to "escape" the bang - maybe two \, like \\0 escape sequence?

Or some other suggestion. What do you think?

Egoist

z64

I see, I wasn't aware that DDG is also using it the same way. I honestly don't think it's a big of an issue, but wanted to see if it was a normal behavior.

I think if \ is a desired feature, it might be good to indicate to the user in the drop down list what they are doing. For example, similarly to how !g hello world shows "search google for "hello world", ! hello world and \ hello world should show "query hello world" or something similar.

it's also inconsistent that ! can be used at the beginning of the input and at the end, while \ can only be used at the beginning.