Searching special RegEx characters does not return result with RegEx enabled

[bosunski]

When special RegEx characters (likes of \ + * ? [ ^ ] $ ( ) { } = ! < > | : -) are entered in the search input and RegEx mode is enabled, the search keeps loading without return. These can be reproduced in the Online Demo too.

Meanwhile, on Local VSCode or VSCode.dev, you will get an error, which is expected.

[CGNonofr]

That's because the search in VSCode can only operate:

• Via the HTMLFileSystemProvider
• On a remote host, via the Server Extension host

In the demo, we use a virtual client filesystem and there is no built-in way to search in it, so the demo implements a basic search that is probably not handling edge cases very well

If you enable the html filesystem provider and open a local directory, do you confirm the searching works well?

[bosunski]

The same issue happens when using HTML filesystem. I also think this doesn't have something to do with the filesystem provider because, when this happens, the provideTextSearchResults exposed by the provider is not even called. So, I think this might be something else.

[bosunski]

Opening the search in the editor, did reveal an error that would have been seen in the UI (as in the image in the issue description). This also seems to be before the provider is called.

[CGNonofr]

Ok It looks like you're right! I've found the issue, fix is coming soon, thanks for the report!

[github-actions[bot]]

:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 7.0.4 :tada:

The release is available on GitHub release

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