word boundary in regex find doesn't work
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Description
To find h variable in page I've tried \<h\> which doesn't work and \bh\b which finds hs in words. There's h word in page and I've set regex by default in Vimium options.
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Reproduce the issue in Vimium with regex enabled, using a page containing a standalone h and words containing h. Inspect the find implementation to determine why \bh\b matches characters inside words, then verify that standalone-word matching works without breaking normal regex searches.
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- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100