#287 - Fixed & improved highlightText() + a bit of cleaning (#288)

src/tools/utils.ts

@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ export function wait(ms: number): Promise<void> {
   })
 }
 
-// https://stackoverflow.com/a/3561711
-// but we enclose special chars in brackets to avoid them being interpreted as regex
-export function escapeRegex(str: string): string {
-  return str.replace(/[-/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '[$&]')
-}
-
 /**
  * Returns the positions of all occurences of `val` inside of `text`
  * https://stackoverflow.com/a/58828841