todo-tree.general.tags: Escaping Regex Characters

[bohni]

85 : There are more regex chars than the backslash...

I'm writing documentation in asciidoc an I use a asiicoc variable {todo-item}

How can I add this to tags?

• "todo-item": there are no hits
• "{todo-item}": regex complains "error: repetition operator missing expression"
• "\{todo-item\}": Jsonc complains "invalid escape character in string"

Solution:
All regex characters should be escaped before building the regex search string

[Gruntfuggly]

Probably your best bet in this case is to ignore the tags and just update the regex directly, e.g.

"todo-tree.regex.regex": "((//|#|<!--|;|/\\*|^)\\s*(($TAGS)|\\{todo-item\\})|^\\s*- \\[ \\])"

or if you want to keep it really simple

"todo-tree.regex.regex": "\\{todo-item\\}"

I'll see if it's possible to escape other characters...

[ailixter]

it's a pity but it does not work for me.
\?\?\? breaks things (and \\?\\?\\? breaks all the same)

[Gruntfuggly]

If you simplify the regex to (\?\?\?), via the GUI, or (\\?\\?\\?) in the .json, does it find anything?