do you really like it when in your second reply you admitted you hadnt encountered it

you werent affected like rich lowe that is why you like Textastic just the way it is now.

escaping \ is archaic like using vim, no offense to vim users

vs code and notepad++ a great text editor for Programmer's, created with programmer's in mind, does not need to escape \

maybe a toggle for literal search is better or a toggle for extended search. no requirement to read the manual