unescape_search_text


Description:


[ Version ( since = "3.10" ) ]
public string unescape_search_text (string text)

Use this function before set_search_text, 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: escape_search_text.

Parameters:

text

the text to unescape.

Returns:

the unescaped text.


Namespace: Gtk.SourceUtils
Package: gtksourceview-4