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

and next-level: do any support syntax highlighting in the relevant language while _also_ highlighting for regex syntax?

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

e.g. a search like:
```class MyCl.*```
… would have `class` highlighted for the language of the file, and `.*` highlighted because regex

(this so, so doesn’t matter. just a <#C046T6TA4|random> thought)

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

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

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