From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search? Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:40:44 +0100 Message-ID: <874jvc6kwz.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <5699a03ca2b14915459c0912ac389ad9.support1@rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22421"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 29.0.50 Cc: Jean Louis , Help GNU Emacs To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 18:41:31 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 1orjeF-0005eE-Mn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orjdm-0002Ow-Df; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:41:02 -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 1orjdk-0002Oo-6w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orjdf-0000pq-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B366CE58BF; Sun, 6 Nov 2022 18:40:49 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VvrjQMcPuoLW; Sun, 6 Nov 2022 18:40:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (178235147189.dynamic-3-poz-k-0-1-0.vectranet.pl [178.235.147.189]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CBC122271598; Sun, 6 Nov 2022 18:40:45 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140742 Archived-At: On 2022-11-06, at 10:17, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 at 16:13, Jean Louis 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