Escapestring not escaping ^

[jda]

>  > I see that
>>
>>       escapedWordToFind = Valentina.EscapeString(s, true)
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>>  does not escape the ^ character (and so searches fail).
>>
>>  Seems like a bug to me, but we've had disagreements before about
>>  escaping for RegEx searches. Should I report this on Mantis?
>
>NO.
>
>I believe that we have close with Sergey all issues about escaping.
>
>* In fact parameter inForRegex is NOT used any more, and will be removed.
>
>* We should not escape ^
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>IT IS your user (or your app) should escape that.
>
>     "aaa\^"bbb  -- this is what ME enter into BBEdit when I do regex
>

OK, I can do that (already done, in fact). But what exactly does 
.escapestring do now? If we have to manually escape every affected 
character, what purpose does it serve? I liked it when it did all the 
necessary escaping for us (if I wanted the user to do the escaping, I 
wouldn't call .escapestring, would I)?

Jon