From e2a1955330acc155cd6e92580d9ec74f3d55f09b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Rajlich <nathan@tootallnate.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:16:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "handle regex special characters"

This reverts commit 8dd8345d1498b8c6a3c6d7f7f4ebc600cfd2195b.

We shouldn't have changed the original behavior, which
too many people are relying on at this point.

It's also technically a breaking change, which we shouldn't
have landed on a minor/patch version change. So in the interest
of not breaking people's logs in production, reverting this.

We can discuss in a new issue if we want to restore this patch
for a `v3` release, but at the moment I'm personally leaningo
towards *no*, for historical reasons (i.e. this is reminding
me of Node.js trying to remove `sys` if anybody reading this
remembers those days).

See the discussion in #250 for more backlog.
---
 debug.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debug.js b/debug.js
index a5992a44..6e9f5213 100644
--- a/debug.js
+++ b/debug.js
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ function enable(namespaces) {
 
   for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
     if (!split[i]) continue; // ignore empty strings
-    namespaces = split[i].replace(/[\\^$+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&').replace(/\*/g, '.*?');
+    namespaces = split[i].replace(/\*/g, '.*?');
     if (namespaces[0] === '-') {
       exports.skips.push(new RegExp('^' + namespaces.substr(1) + '$'));
     } else {