diff --git a/src/lib/extension/CustomCategoriesResolver.ts b/src/lib/extension/CustomCategoriesResolver.ts
index 11e9935..4a2545b 100644
--- a/src/lib/extension/CustomCategoriesResolver.ts
+++ b/src/lib/extension/CustomCategoriesResolver.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { TagDropdownWrapper } from "$lib/components/TagDropdownWrapper";
 import TagGroup from "$entities/TagGroup";
-import { escapeRegExp } from "$lib/utils";
+import { escape as escapeRegExp } from "@std/regexp";
 import { emit } from "$lib/components/events/comms";
 import { EVENT_TAG_GROUP_RESOLVED } from "$lib/components/events/tag-dropdown-events";
 
diff --git a/src/lib/utils.ts b/src/lib/utils.ts
index 251fd43..e743865 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils.ts
+++ b/src/lib/utils.ts
@@ -21,21 +21,3 @@ export function findDeepObject(targetObject: Record<string, any>, path: string[]
 
   return result;
 }
-
-/**
- * Matches all the characters needing replacement.
- *
- * Gathered from right here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3561711/16048617. Because I don't want to introduce some
- * library for that.
- */
-const unsafeRegExpCharacters: RegExp = /[/\-\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g;
-
-/**
- * Escape all the RegExp syntax-related characters in the following value.
- * @param value Original value.
- * @return Resulting value with all needed characters escaped.
- */
-export function escapeRegExp(value: string): string {
-  unsafeRegExpCharacters.lastIndex = 0;
-  return value.replace(unsafeRegExpCharacters, "\\$&");
-}