From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search?
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:40:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jvc6kwz.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8XTci8_YLAnGZ9QBPjvVOd0n-eokH_NAgKHP0EqhkJ6hA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2022-11-06, at 10:17, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 16:13, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
>> Is there any Emacs function to automatically escape regex characters
>> for regex searches?
>
> regexp-quote?
While this is not what OP asked for, `regexp-opt' is also worth knowing
about.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-06 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-06 9:10 How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search? Jean Louis
2022-11-06 9:17 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-06 17:40 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2022-11-07 5:58 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-06 9:19 ` tomas
2022-11-06 9:24 ` Jean Louis
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