Impossible to search for colons in literal search
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Created by: attfarhan
It is impossible to search for a : character in literal search mode because we treat it as a special character to denote a search filter. Escaping \: does not work, and you can't wrap it in quotes.
Slack thread: https://sourcegraph.slack.com/archives/C07KZF47K/p1572557671374200