regex does not work as expected

[nova-nowiz]

• I am on the latest ActivityWatch version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• OS version and name: Arch Linux (5.6.15-arch1-1)
• ActivityWatch version: 0.9.2-1 (activitywatch-bin on AUR)

Describe the bug

Regex special characters don't work in ActivityWatch Categorizations as mentioned in this forum post, escaping characters with backslashes cause problems.

To Reproduce

1. Got to ActivityWatch web interface.
2. Go to Settings
3. Create a regex rule with a backslash escaped character (for example \w)
4. See in the Activity tab that the rule is not taken into account as it is written

Expected behavior

The regex synax should respect a standard. This standard should also be available on the documentation or elsewhere.

[ErikBjare]

The issue here isn't the flavor of regex (although we should still document exactly which flavor we support), but rather that something goes wrong with escaping the backslashes.

@johan-bjareholt Does this work as expected in aw-server-rust?

[johan-bjareholt]

@ErikBjare If I remember correctly it was something wrong with the web-ui incorrectly escaping backslashes.

EDIT: Yeah, it was mentioned in the forum post @Narice linked https://forum.activitywatch.net/t/help-with-regex/541/4?u=johan-bjareholt

We should probably make a issue in aw-webui for it instead.

[nova-nowiz]

@ErikBjare even using aw-server-rust it does not work as intended.
@johan-bjareholt should I make an issue in another repository?

[nova-nowiz]

This discussion moved to the aw-webui repository (here), so I'm closing this issue as it seems to be specific to the other repository ;).

[ErikBjare]

You never closed the issue, but that's fine, we prefer having issues here in the main repository anyway :)

Fixed in ActivityWatch/aw-webui@554d05a, merged in ActivityWatch/aw-webui#203

Will be included in the next release.

[nova-nowiz]

Oh woops sorry, I was sure I did xD

Thanks for the fix, have a good day and stay safe ;)