Highlight capturing groups when searching using regex

[habovh]

When searching using regex, I think it would be useful to differentiate highlighted parts that matches capturing groups in the search results.
This would allow for easier regex replace as well.

In addition to #42715, the captured values recalled using $n in the replace field could also benefit from some kind of highlight/color change, for even easier replace.

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• Cannot Prepend RegEx Match Group Replacement with a $ (#28146)

[jcklpe]

I'd like to +1 this.

[Ixohoxi]

Absolutely agree with this request. Being able to see each capture group within each match would be extremely helpful.

[RichardJFoster]

Agreed. I just ran into a scenario where this would have been wonderfully helpful. Instead, it's LinqPad to the rescue. :-)

[roblourens]

Unfortunately this isn't really feasible. Would need ripgrep support which is probably not likely.

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[Hiestaa]

Sad to see this feature request won't be addressed, I was looking for a way to do this precisely. It would make vscode really useful to test and debug custom RegExps if you found a way to bring this feature to the product.

[StoryDevOffical]

we still need this tiny custom here

[Snailedlt]

Is this possible to implement as an extension perhaps?