utilsUnescapeSearchText

fnstring utilsUnescapeSearchText(string text)

Use this function before [gtksource.search_settings.SearchSettings.setSearchText], to unescape the following sequences of characters: \n, \r, \t and `\\`. The purpose is to easily write those characters in a search entry.

Note that unescaping the search text is not needed for regular expression searches.

See also: funcutils_escape_search_text.

Parameters

textthe text to unescape.

Returns

the unescaped text.