do any editors support syntax highlighting regexes when you

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do any editors support syntax highlighting regexes when you use them in search

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

and next level do any support syntax highlighting in the relevant language while also highlighting for regex syntax

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

In search you mean like the editor s functionality to search for code snippets and file names

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

yea

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

e g a search like ```class MyCl ``` would have `class` highlighted for the language of the file and ` ` highlighted because regex

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

this so so doesn t matter just a < C046T6TA4|random> thought

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

Not that I m aware of I personally always use ripgrep for regex searches

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

yea i was using `vi` when i thought of this and i use a dumb shell so maybe this exists in some of them

enough-analyst-54434 · Answer

Sortof

enough-analyst-54434 · Answer

The syntax highlighting is only for the current selected match of the many in the window below

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

mm pretty