From ec2a72064984c82b7a28a095eaff62c86e259ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanner Collin <git@tannercollin.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:53:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Ensure highlighting matches HTML-escaped text in
 excerpts

Co-authored-by: aider (gemini/gemini-2.5-pro) <aider@aider.chat>
---
 src/tools/text-processing.ts | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/text-processing.ts b/src/tools/text-processing.ts
index 8f9b8db..b994c19 100644
--- a/src/tools/text-processing.ts
+++ b/src/tools/text-processing.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ export class TextProcessor {
     try {
       return text.replace(
         new RegExp(
-          `(${matches.map(item => escapeRegExp(item.match)).join('|')})`,
+          `(${matches
+            .map(item => escapeRegExp(escapeHTML(item.match)))
+            .join('|')})`,
           'giu'
         ),
         `<span class="${highlightClass}">$1</span>`