Regular expression engine enhancement request
 

I would like to see in the next OO release an enhancement to the find dialogue RE engine to using full PCRE [1] syntax. The open source RegexKit [2] provides the enhanced functionality. This would help when trying to do more complex matches using lookahead and behind assertions.

[1] [url]http://www.pcre.org[/url]
[2] [url]http://regexkit.sourceforge.net[/url]

Seconded, especially lookahead
 

[FONT="Garamond"]Seconded, especially lookahead, e.g.,
[INDENT][/FONT] [FONT="Courier New"]"(?:[A-Za-z])[/FONT][/INDENT]
[FONT="Garamond"]which works in BBEdit’s regex mode, but not OmniOutliners, as part of a poor man’s smart quotes. (Which is another enhancement request, BTW.)[/FONT]

Replace Subexpression #1
 

[FONT="Garamond"]OTOH, the “Replace Subexpression #1” option does help, e.g., with the pattern[/FONT]
[INDENT][FONT="Courier New"](")[A-Za-z][/FONT][/INDENT]