From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to automatically escape regex characters for regex search? Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 10:19:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <5699a03ca2b14915459c0912ac389ad9.support1@rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IgcV2eRPscvpeV1O" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36815"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 10:19:22 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 1orboI-0009O8-4z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:19:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orboD-0005Tc-1o; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:19:17 -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 1orbo2-0005Rh-Ou for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orbo0-0006DD-Vb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:19:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID: Subject:To:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=gurMgso8bOVJMzDMvBTkrTkisQSY3VUQakuGaR5hfOE=; b=d4p0XZRS8NpjKKTQ2InZYOPFnP JGcchDwb4w6yU7ugwk42MGnvgDLPOZtjTjQa6tjp4yQ0gsxt1W6lYlCOI/QzKc0hpEn+eC2Cs19Ev sj+amX/dyPJCy4Ik8mdQXwS8YXw5UvKS6gjA/1OKy7jgj36tieQL5mKU5ddZRKKnRNHcA4tNMsdz8 6bqhBrUBw+PEQoyip17h6IeCuPmceB8Ol5UQjlmhP9guBhqzSTwNsu8wY/8aJkM/2m+rvl7XNqpkv Z5MWQxvpi+84v2rwubCGs2Lr3//2H0eLA9MBgkNTg+btI7iGoLPUDroEbANrYaodkLunp6gZZjnaa J3AVgF2w==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1orbny-0000En-7C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:19:02 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5699a03ca2b14915459c0912ac389ad9.support1@rcdrun.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=5.199.139.25; envelope-from=tomas@tuxteam.de; helo=mail.tuxteam.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, 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: , 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:140711 Archived-At: --IgcV2eRPscvpeV1O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 12:10:47PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote: >=20 > Is there any Emacs function to automatically escape regex characters > for regex searches? >=20 > 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 --=20 t --IgcV2eRPscvpeV1O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQRp53liolZD6iXhAoIFyCz1etHaRgUCY2d8AAAKCRAFyCz1etHa Rhy2AJ9kwze9hJze82LVRNLe/RPQvAboZwCfeF8seo9FeCjlYqTBEGYFaGJD7Uc= =lo6i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IgcV2eRPscvpeV1O--