Steven Levithan

> what's the deal with `\G` and `\A`? `\A` seems trivial, but then I can see it being special cased together with `\G` [here](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-textmate/blob/f03a6a8790af81372d0e81facae75554ec5e97ef/src/rule.ts#L666). That code you referenced is pretty...

Whoa, @RedCMD dropping knowledge of the actual history of these changes! 😁 (I started replying before he posted, and I'm not super knowledgeable like he is about TextMate grammars and...

unicorn

Thanks, @DJj123dj! Regarding the *JavaScript regex evolution* section: *Awesome Regex* is definitely not focused only on regex noobs, and this section is uniquely comprehensive (and concise) compared to anything else...

@sindresorhus, no rush/pressure, but since a couple of PRs more recent than this one have recently been merged, I'm curious if you have any thoughts or feedback I can address.

> @antfu I did some digging, and it looks like the incompatibility with React Native is due to the use of RegExp's `d` flag to access `match.indices` for capture group...

@skiniks it would be good to test with *at least* React Native [0.75.1](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.75.1)+ or [0.74.6](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.74.6)+ since, as far as I can tell (the Hermes/RN versioning system is complicated), those releases...

Unfortunately, I don't expect to be able to submit a PR for this due to other priorities and the fact that it's probably a significant body of work. That said,...

@RedCMD its not clear to me that any of these 3 issues are duplicates. Especially #127 seems different since it doesn't reference regex subroutines. @jeff-hykin TextMate grammars use the Oniguruma...

> swapping engines might not be as insane as it initially sounds. Unfortunately, it probably is. There's a long tail of TM grammars that rely on specific quirks of Oniguruma...