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30.1; lgrep doesn't protect regex with -- before

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Message #11 received at 76767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 76767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Joel Reicher <joel.reicher <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#76767: 30.1; lgrep doesn't protect regex with -- before
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:07:45 +0100

On Mär 06 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Joel Reicher <joel.reicher <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:02:46 +1100
>> 
>> 
>> If the search string begins with `-' the string is interpreted as a flag to grep.
>
> You should be able to solve this if you invoke lgrep with C-u or with
> "C-u C-u".
>
> I'm not sure it is easy to always protect the regexp, since (1) we use
> grep-template

grep-template already prefixes the regexp with -e, so I don't understand
why the problem exists.

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