Disable escaping of chars in live grep

[Kazy]

Hello !

When using live grep, some characters (see https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/master/lua/telescope/builtin/files.lua#L19) are escaped from the prompt (see https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/master/lua/telescope/builtin/files.lua#L50), in particular *. This makes using regex patterns impossible for searching impossible.

Could it be possible to disable it/would you be open to such an option, or is there a strong reason to escape them ?

Thanks !

[Conni2461]

If i recall correctly it completely broke live_grep but we could re-enable for grep_string.

CC @elianiva

[elianiva]

yeah, it broke live_grep if it's not a complete regex. e.g if you type ( instead of ().
I think we could remove it for grep_string, it's doing fine without escape_chars

[zygous]

I too would like a nice way to search using a regex instead of just a string. I've no strong opinions on how that should work, but "grep" is a misnomer without it. live_grep is nice but not powerful enough.

[Conni2461]

See #670

[languitar]

Before telescope I was using clap. There, grepping simply stopped and showed an error message until the syntax of the regex was fixed. That was actually pretty usable that way.

[Conni2461]

We no longer escape them for quite some time. Closing