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If you search in the chat history for something with two double quotes, something bad will happen. For example, try searching for ""abc"".

Screenshot demonstrating the problem

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And why, exactly, would you be doing this in the first place? –  Cody Gray Apr 28 '12 at 8:57
@TheEstablishment There is something with two double quotes in the chat history and I need to find it. –  Meysam Apr 28 '12 at 9:00
"Something bad happened"... no kidding ;) –  Lix Apr 28 '12 at 9:03
You could escape the quotation marks, but it doesn't seem to consider them when searching. –  kiamlaluno Apr 28 '12 at 10:25
(@Mat, thanks for teaching me something! Just as you seem to take an interest in the matter: letting Google tell what's most used, "subsequent characters" is used about as often as "consecutive characters". That proves nothing, I know, but it seems subsequent can be used for order (without referring to time) too? Still then, consecutive might be better.) –  Arjan Apr 28 '12 at 11:51
@Arjan: that's more of a question for english.SE :) In my understanding, "subsequent" needs something to be subsequent to. "Two consecutive / denote the start of a comment, subsequent chars are ignored until end of line" - or something like that. But I may very well be wrong, I'm not a native speaker. –  Mat Apr 28 '12 at 13:13

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