feat: skip special character parsing

[ph-fritsche]

@ph-fritsche Maybe add an option to skip detection of key descriptors? Something like:

userEvent.type(input, '{"foo":"bar"}', { skipSpecialCharacters: true })

Originally posted by @lynxtaa in https://github.com/testing-library/user-event/issues/584#issuecomment-800922956

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An alternative might be to export this workaround as a utility:

userEvent.type(input, '{"foo":"bar"}'.replace(/[{[]/g, '$&$&'))
// would become
userEvent.type(input, escapeKeyboardInput('{"foo":"bar"}'))

[SiebeVE]

When typing a : or a /, it is also escaped/removed from the input value. See: https://codesandbox.io/s/user-event-type-url-sc8by?file=/src/tests/App.test.js

Escaping them with the provided regex helps with the : but not with the /

[ph-fritsche]

@SiebeVE Thanks for the report. The behavior described by you is unintended. A fix is applied in #588 .

[nickmccurdy]

Should this be closed? I noticed the original issue (#587) is.

[ph-fritsche]

Should this be closed? I noticed the original issue (#587) is.

Nope. I've extracted that comment to a new issue because there was a bug parsing /. This issue is about adding a feature to ease escaping characters for type and keyboard.