highlight word regardless of if it is a whole word or a substring

[hoffor]

for example, i want the word 'hello' to trigger a highlight for 'ell'

according to what i've found on PCRE2 regex, using the word simply on its own should do exactly this, but it does not and i've read a comment in a chatterino issue also claiming a word on its own will only match the entire word

thank you

[Felanbird]

Are you sure you didn't read it backwards? It makes sense that ell matches hello but I don't see why hello should match ell

[hoffor]

that's what i said

[Felanbird]

[hoffor]

doesn't highlight, dunno why

[Felanbird]

Did you check the enable regex box?

[hoffor]

derp. thank you, lol.