Search for escaping character \ in sublime text 2

Question

Could anyone help me understand why I am unable to search for \ or unicode in Sublime Text 2?

Searching for \u001B is not found although clearly in the file and an error occurs when searching for just ...

Obviously doing something wrong but no idea what.

Answer 1

You have 'Regular expression' matching enabled (this is the leftmost button next to the search field). Since backslashes are used in 'regex' expressions, to search for a backslash, you would need to search for \\

To do simple, text-based matching (i.e., not use regular expressions), simply click the first button to disable Regular expression matching. You should then be able to search for \