How to use counsel-git-grep without using back slash

Question

I am using counsel-git-grep to grep for a string in the current Git repository.

Lets assume I am searching string " [ok] ". In order to obtain correct results I have to provide input as " \[ok\] " ; where \ should be added before some characters like [, ], ", etc.

Is there any way achieve the grep results without using \?

Answer 1

I think in theory this should be possible by adding -F to the grep flags in the counsel-git-grep-cmd-default variable by evaluating

(setq counsel-git-grep-cmd-default "git --no-pager grep -F -n --no-color -I -e \"%s\"")

(of course you could add this to your init.el file)

However, I am not sure if it works in practice (because of some weird behaviors I am not able to test it here quickly).