Full regex support in lookaheads (or at least \n and \s)

Sometimes, for the sake of formatting my code to look nice, I like to add a new line immediately after the template literal tick. For example:

const test = await client.query(`
  select * from test
`)

Obviously this simple example does not need the new line (or I could have escaped before the tick), but larger queries often do to maintain alignment. No matter what I try, I cannot get the lookahead to match the whitespace because \s results in a JSCustom error “invalid escape character” .

I have tried "[\n\t ]*select" which will happily match spaces and tabs, but not the new line.

Also, your example in the config settings select\b does not match a template string select 1 from dual.

I find it strange that some regex works, but others don’t. Personally, whitespace matching would solve my problem, but it seems sensible to parse all valid regex.

[Thom1729]

There’s an easy way: in your Package Control settings, add:

"install_prereleases": [ "JSCustom"]

Or add "JSCustom" to the array if it already exists.

[nianiam]

Sorry for the slow reply and excuse my ignorance, but I’m not sure how to install the beta.

What I am doing:

1. Download the beta release .zip and renaming the file extension to .sublime-package
2. Use the command palette to Browse Packages
3. Replace the regular install with the beta in the Installed Packages folder.

This doesn’t seem to change anything, the packages shows without a version and description if I list packages and it refuses to open the settings. Obviously I am doing something wrong here, but I am not sure what.