Capture groups make regex highlights fail

[CinnamonSnowball]

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BYOND Version

515.1639

Issue Description

Using capture groups in a regex highlight seems to break it completely, failing to highlight anything

What did you expect to happen?

One of the most useful features of regex highlights vs. plaintext ones to function

What happened instead?

Why is this bad/What are the consequences?

Regression from our previous chat system

Steps to reproduce the issue.

See screencap above

When did the problem start happening?

Haven't checked to make sure but I'll be damned if it wasn't introduced in the TGUI chat port

Extra information

Thanks, have a Paradise day!

Relevant log output/runtime error

No response

[chuga-git]

This sucks, but TG chat purposefully restricts the symbols allowed in regex highlight strings.

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[CinnamonSnowball]

This sucks, but TG chat purposefully restricts the symbols allowed in regex highlight strings.

And what is that purpose? We didn't use to do this and our highlights worked fine

[Contrabang]

We when switched chat systems, this regressed to not having regex available. Ideally, we bring this feature back.