Parenthesis break "whole word"

[SolemnTagger]

So with "whole word" it basically makes it so that you can't accidentally transform part of a larger word when substituting a small word. So if you're replacing "cat" with "dog" you don't accidentally replace "concatenate" with "condogenate"...perfect...simple.

However, I've noticed this functionality breaks with the introduction of parenthesis. It's like it doesn't count them as part of a whole word. So let's say I wanted to replace "buster_(dog)" with just "doggie"...that would 100% work. However, if I also have "buster_(dog)_(red)" somewhere else on the page it's going to turn that into "doggie_(red)" which is likely an unintended consequence of the substitution.

It's like it considers the parenthesis to be an end-of-word character or something...like it's a whitespace. Please fix this so the "whole word" option respects parenthesis as part of a word!

[Woundorf]

This is actually not a bug. The whole words feature just intends to cover usual cases without needing to write a regular expression (the regular expression is created internally). Letters and underscores are considered word characters in regular expressions. Parentheses are considered non-word characters. Thus, in ")_" there is a "word boundary" (i.e. a place where one word begins or ends) between the closing parenthesis and the underscore. The actual logic is a bit more complex, but I hope you get the idea.

I can't change this logic now because it would probably break many other use cases, and anyway this is an unusual case. For this you need to create the appropriate regular expression adapted to your needs.

Hope this helps.