Escape pasted text

[carbon-steel]

I tried adding the following code to my after/ftplugin/spectre_panel.lua to escape special characters when I paste:

vim.keymap.set("n", "p", function()
	local text = vim.fn.getreg() -- uses v:register by default
	text = string.gsub(text, [[%\]], [[\\]])
	text = string.gsub(text, "%.", [[\.]])
	text = string.gsub(text, "%(", [[\(]])
	text = string.gsub(text, "%)", [[\)]])
	text = string.gsub(text, "%[", [[\[]])
	text = string.gsub(text, "%]", [[\[]])
	text = string.gsub(text, [[%|]], [[\|]])
	vim.api.nvim_paste(text, true, -1)
end)

The idea is that if I yank "foo.py" and paste it into the spectre panel, it should paste "foo.py" so that it looks for the exact string instead of the regex.

However, the keymap conflicted with

n  p           *@p<Cmd>lua require('spectre').on_search_change()<CR> 

so it didn't work.

Would it be possible to integrate escaping special characters into the plugin itself? Or is there another way to achieve what I'm trying to do?

[EpsilonKu]

Hi, sorry for late reply. We can extend mapping option so you can replace .on_search_change() to your own

[EpsilonKu]

If you are interested I can open pr for that

[carbon-steel]

I think this change is a good idea if you want to do it but I've moved away from nvim-spectre so feel free to just close this issue :)

[EpsilonKu]

Ough man, scammers.

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