Function sourceview5::utils_unescape_search_text

pub fn utils_unescape_search_text(text: &str) -> GString

Use this function before SearchSettingsExt::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: utils_escape_search_text().

text

the text to unescape.

Returns

the unescaped @text.