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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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Jean

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             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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