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how can I (interactive) search for <beginningOfLine>,

I tried ^ which means beginning of line in perl Also \A which does signified the same in ruby.

C-s ^, C-s \A,

I also tried search-forward-regexp with above.

# /tmp/routes.txt
1,GET    /clients/:client_id/committees/:id,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
1,GET    /clients/:client_id/committees/:id/edit,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
1,GET    /clients/:client_id/committees/new,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
,POST   /clients/:client_id/committees,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
1,GET    /clients/:client_id/committees,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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    C-u C-s to call isearch-forward-regexp, use "^,"
    – nichijou
    Feb 3 at 0:41
  • gold! thanks for that
    – american-ninja-warrior
    Feb 3 at 0:52
  • I suspect that this is a duplicate - but if not, then @nichijou's comment should be made into an answer.
    – NickD
    Feb 3 at 17:14

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Use isearch-forward-regexp. Its binding is C-M-s, you can also invoke it with C-u C-s.

The regexp Emacs used for line beginning is ^.

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