From a8c18f5dca5f6a19164ec79d65239abdeaf1c8e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanner Collin <git@tannercollin.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:48:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Improve search term highlighting for words with
 punctuation

Co-authored-by: aider (gemini/gemini-2.5-pro) <aider@aider.chat>
---
 src/tools/text-processing.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/text-processing.ts b/src/tools/text-processing.ts
index 1d19751..8f9b8db 100644
--- a/src/tools/text-processing.ts
+++ b/src/tools/text-processing.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export class TextProcessor {
     strings.sort((a, b) => b.length - a.length)
 
     const joined = `(${strings
-      .map(s => `\\b${escapeRegExp(s)}\\b|${escapeRegExp(s)}`)
+      .map(s => `(?<!\\w)${escapeRegExp(s)}(?!\\w)`)
       .join('|')})`
 
     return new RegExp(`${joined}`, 'gui')