Hack explanation

[dmarman]

medium-editor-auto-style-extension/src/auto-style.js

Line 222 in dc51b9a

if (match.length === 2) {

First of all thanks for this repository 👍

I am trying to use your package using regex expressions instead of words. Something like:

config: {
                longWord: {
                    matchcase: false,
                    wordsonly: false,
                    class: 'long-word',
                    words: ['[a-zA-z]{14,}']
                }
}

It is actually working properly.
But I notice that some expressions doesn't work. If I use something like words: ['([a-z]+ ){1,}'] won't work. I realize it is because of the "(" and ")". The code will fire window.console.error('Cannot process: ' + match);
If I use words: ['([a-z]+ ){1,}'] then matches.length = 3 which will never be processed since the code only accepts lengths of 2 and 4.
I tried changing your code to if (match.length === 2 || match.length === 3) this will style the content but will set the caret at the begginng :(

Could you explain please a little bit more about this hack and why sometimes it outputs 3 matches? Do you think I should change some parts of your code in order to use regex explessions instead of words?