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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search?
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 10:19:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2d8BlnpEymKyP68@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5699a03ca2b14915459c0912ac389ad9.support1@rcdrun.com>

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On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 12:10:47PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> 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.

regexp-quote

Cheers
-- 
t

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-06  9:19 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
2022-11-07  5:58     ` Jean Louis
2022-11-06  9:19 ` tomas [this message]
2022-11-06  9:24   ` Jean Louis

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