I frequently search for commit messages or paths that have () sometimes [] and “and” etc. They fail because these aren’t recognized as literals, but special logic or glob markers. And it’s not obvious in the interface, so it’s easy to think nothing was found when instead your [Folder] actually searched for a single lette.
Instead I’d like a smart literal mode where by default but also with an option to change dynamically and with an apparent state indicator (similar to how in Sublime Text search panel you see a button indicator of regex mode)
The smart part is that for path search when you use illegal filesystem symbols like * it should be treated as is, that is, as a glob marker. Ideally the list should be configurable so that you can exclude valid symbols as well (e.g., include * even on filesystems where it’s a legal symbol)
And maybe that highlight should be more prominent? But will look into modifying the theme to achieve that.