How do I escape characters in GitHub code search?

Question

I\'m trying to use GitHub\'s code search to search for some lines of code containing characters like =, +, etc.

I understand from https://help.

Answer 1

there is one more (some might say shameful) semi-solution/workaround: Using google...

In the search field enter site:repo-url in addition to your keywords.

I was searching for action$ in the redux-logic repo and was at least able to filter out all the other unwanted action (without the dollar-sign) results which were showing up in the github search. In Google i typed (pay attention to the quotes):

site:https://github.com/jeffbski/redux-logic "action$"

Unfortunately though, google won't list all results. That's why i wrote semi at the beginning. So you can try your luck quickly with google, if you don't find what you were looking for, fallback to checking out the git repo + search with offline-tools like vscode, intellij or cmd-line-tools as suggested by @Ran Ever-Hadani

I hope github will soon come up with a brand-new search feature, which its users can love instead of hate.