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Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> I'm using ocaml and often type strings like "!a;;" into comint. When
> I do a comint-previous-input, instead of the expected "!a;;", I get
> "awk " or some other command I typed in some time ago. I believe
> what is happening is that the shell expects the exclamation mark to
> be asking for a history expansion. I want to suppress this behavior
> but can't figure out how to do it. Any thoughts?

Set comint-input-autoexpand to nil.

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