Mode for literal search

[dustdfg]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

When I select text and press Ctrl+f, it automatically opens search in the infowindow and inserts selected text there. But it treat it like a regex.... If for example I selected my_func() to see where this function is called without arguments I will get a regex with empty group () so I will get all the places where the function is called (also counting places where it is called with arguments) or even if I just use it for assigning a variable/lambda like var a = my_func.

In general I could rewrite this issue as I need a literal search mode like in the replace(all) commands

Specifications

Commit hash: current master
OS: Debian 12/testing
Terminal: foot

[dustdfg]

Or as partial solution when user selects text text and presses ctrl+f it is possible to automatically add \ where is needed...

[dmaluka]

You can already do literal search, by using Alt-Shift-f instead of Ctrl-f. Or you can bind Ctrl-f to FindLiteral instead of the default Find.

But yeah, it makes sense to automatically escape the selected text in the case of regex search, so that it does the right thing in all cases. Fixed in 399134f.