Allow regular expressions on highlight

[seanliang]

Allow regular expressions on highlight

[seanliang]

The panel which plugin creates can only contain an input field. To accomplish your suggestion, which approach do you think is better?

1. Add a customizable option 'treat_as_regular_expressions': treat the search terms as regular expressions instead of literals if it is True
2. Add a separated menu item named "Highlight Regular Expressions"

[liuhewei]

@seanliang I think yours plan 1 is better, just like the search panel of ST

[carlosedp]

Agreed. Another thing is to treat spaces as pattern separators as it's now. If you need a space in regex, one must use "\s" or "\ " depending on the regex library you used.

[seanliang]

@carlosedp @liuhewei This idea has been implemented, thanks for suggestion!