I was trying to bind all the multilog commands to the shift+[number] keys since the F1-F6 keys are all set up for contrast, volume, etc on my iBook's keyboard and I'm too lazy to hit the fn+F1 since the buttons are spaced so far apart.
So, as I was binging, log1 was bound to !, log2 to @, log3 to #, log4 to $, and log5 to %.
But when I tried binding log6 to ^ nothing happenned. It just acted like I never typed /bind ^ log6 and when I hit ^ nothing happenned. I bound it to 6 (/bind 6 log6) and it worked fine. When I tried binding other commands like /hudmode to ^ they didn't work either. Why is this?

you can type ^ normally, in chat for example?
if you type /bind ^ what do you see?
it should tell you what is bound to that key.

I see it normally in chat.

When /bind ^ is typed it puts up a list of all commands as if we just typed /bind.

Acts like the ^ character doesn't exist, yet shows up in the console and the chat.

Huh very strange.
Try surrounding the ^ with quotes and see what happens.

You can also try adding the bind directly into your wgaf.cfg file.

Surrounding ^ with quotes (/bind "^" alias) works just fine. It's odd that ^ isn't able to be bound directly, however.

Yeah that is very strange.
I'll test it here and see what's up with that.

Heh yeah lex was absorbing the ^ char if it isn't surrounded by quotes.
It'll be fixed in the next release.

Another chat bug - If I enter a message just as a new sector starts to load, the message is sent, but I cannot see it in my log or onscreen.

Yeah that's a known one. It's a server-side problem.

Is it being used as an escape character...?

No idea. I can't find anything in the lex & yacc book about it. Maybe it is. I just explicitly check for that character now.