alacritty: Seaching for `.............` Causes Highlighing Problem

Enter Search (either vi or non-vi) and continue to enter periods (.). See the highlighting get very strange.

20210218_17h03m15s_grim

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 22 (22 by maintainers)

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There’s literally no difference between empty cells and whitespace in a terminal.

I guess if we supported a forward look-ahead (e.g. (?= ...)) we might be able to do what I was expecting at first, but there’s really no issue.

LOL that is very true.