I experimented with the regex-automata crate in the past and it's the only one I found which can be used for text editors because the direct access to the under

I experimented with the regex-automata crate in the past and it's the only one I found which can be used for text editors because the direct access to the underlying DFA makes it compatible with any text data structure. The usual regex library APIs expect the input to be one contiguous string.