Search and Search&Replace have a problem with the "\" backslash

[Yann Papouin]

If I have a string like this in a file (reg file from wine by example) : "C:\\mozilla\\bin\\mozctl.dll", I have to write "C:\\\\mozilla" (with four slash) to find the good string

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. i've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332549

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream comment:

"This is not a real bug, it's a design decision: '\' needs to be escaped as '\\'
so that we can use \n and \t to search multiline strigs.

The bug is that when selcting text and pressing ctrl+F the text should be
escaped automatically."

[Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo)]

Should there be an option to disable escaping? Or is there a way to make this obvious to people who don’t know about escaping?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed/documented in the current version