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> how do you find a "bold in a phrase" or "bold in a phrase" reliably? Can't you use regex? _[^_\n\r]+_ edit: I think double underscores are easier,

> how do you find a "__bold__ in a phrase" or "bold in a __phrase__" reliably? Can't you use regex? _[^_\n\r]+_ edit: I think double underscores are easier, you should be able to use __.+__ and there's no reason to have to avoid matching single_underscore words.

eviks 3y ago
I meant searching for a "bold in a phrase" phrase when it can have various markup in arbitrary places (also, it's not just __, you might have some other valid marker) But anyway, you can't really use regex here as it's too complicated and error prone for such a frequently needed operation, you need a better mechanism line index or a built in functionality to ignore all markup
- nicbou 3y ago
  So look for **? This has been working well for me.
  - eviks 3y ago
    look where? it can be any other marker, and it can be nested, and it can be in any position, you can't craft a regex on the fly to capture that, your regex will be longer than the phrase.