From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search?
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:10:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5699a03ca2b14915459c0912ac389ad9.support1@rcdrun.com> (raw)
Is there any Emacs function to automatically escape regex characters
for regex searches?
For example I wish to search for "- [ ]" but I wish to automatically
escape that, not in hard coded way, but in such way that I can use any
string and that regex character like "[ ]" get escaped.
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next reply other threads:[~2022-11-06 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-06 9:10 Jean Louis [this message]
2022-11-06 9:17 ` How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search? Yuri Khan
2022-11-06 17:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-11-07 5:58 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-06 9:19 ` tomas
2022-11-06 9:24 ` Jean Louis
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