Regex Question: Why is terminating | required?

[griffman]

@Airy

Would you conclude from seeing that, that my claim of it being a bug was correct?

It's not a bug, it's a (lack of) a feature:

Feature request: Auto-expand all input fields

This came up in this thread about a regex issue, which wasn't really a regex issue at all, but an input error: The user wanted a regex of \[.*$, but somehow entered that four times, once per line, in the regex field. But in the Keyboard Maestro editor, there's no way to tell that there's a problem: [image] It looks fine. The only way we figured out there was an issue was by having the user upload the macro. I installed the macro, selected all the text (Cmd-A) in the input box, copied it, the…

And it comes up a lot in any fields that don't auto-expand but can (purposefully or accidentally) contain a line break.

I really hope Peter can at least give us an indicator that there's a line break in non-expanding fields.

-rob.