From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search? Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:10:47 +0300 Message-ID: <5699a03ca2b14915459c0912ac389ad9.support1@rcdrun.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 10:12:18 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1orbhR-0000N6-IT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:12:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orbgz-0003U6-Rn; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orbgp-0003Tn-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orbgo-0005Iv-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.221]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000081FF8.0000000063677A22.000046DE; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:10:57 -0700 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=support1@rcdrun.com; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -14 X-Spam_score: -1.5 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140708 Archived-At: 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. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/