I have Geany 1.27 installed in my Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). But I also have Windows 7 OS with Geany 1.28 installed.
In both these versions of Geany, when I try to find a string into a multiple files or folder with file-type filter of "phtml" or "php", I see that when my search string includes ( or ) (for example, function new() the search fails.
Now I have a slight idea that this could be due to un-escaped bracket in string acting as part of Regex in grep command. Am I right?
How can I overcome the unescaped characters in search string when searching in Geany? In both Ubuntu and Windows Geany if the method could be different.
Ensure you properly escape your braces, as depending on options, you have set the regular expression is used for searching.
Your function search would be something like
new\(\). The documentation is more detailed.