From bcec9f35d59427dca2ac4e74a40cc9a6482d7494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Florian=20M=C3=BCllner?= <fmuellner@gnome.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:12:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] util: Wrap g_regex_escape_string()

---
 src/shell-util.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 src/shell-util.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/shell-util.c b/src/shell-util.c
index bedd5869b..7383e8423 100644
--- a/src/shell-util.c
+++ b/src/shell-util.c
@@ -240,6 +240,21 @@ shell_util_translate_time_string (const char *str)
   return res;
 }
 
+/**
+ * shell_util_regex_escape:
+ * @str: a UTF-8 string to escape
+ *
+ * A wrapper around g_regex_escape_string() that takes its argument as
+ * \0-terminated string rather than a byte-array the confuses gjs.
+ *
+ * Returns: @str with all regex-special characters escaped
+ */
+char *
+shell_util_regex_escape (const char *str)
+{
+  return g_regex_escape_string (str, -1);
+}
+
 /**
  * shell_write_string_to_stream:
  * @stream: a #GOutputStream
diff --git a/src/shell-util.h b/src/shell-util.h
index 532e19ba9..2218594c1 100644
--- a/src/shell-util.h
+++ b/src/shell-util.h
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ char    *shell_util_format_date                (const char       *format,
                                                 gint64            time_ms);
 const char *shell_util_translate_time_string   (const char *str);
 
+char    *shell_util_regex_escape               (const char *str);
+
 gboolean shell_write_string_to_stream          (GOutputStream    *stream,
                                                 const char       *str,
                                                 GError          **error);