Cursor disappears in PowerRegEx

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whiggs2
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Cursor disappears in PowerRegEx

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Product, version and build: PowerRegex Version 1.4.35
32 or 64 bit version of product: 64 bit
Operating system: Windows 10 1803
32 or 64 bit OS: 64 bit

When using powerregex, when attempting to modify a string you are testing against a regular expression, the cursor in the edit control is not visible if the string being tested is highlighted (eg. matches the regular expression configured in the tool. Please see below video to see what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorMy3ss9yg
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Re: Cursor disappears in PowerRegEx

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Thank you for reporting the issue. You can't see the caret because the match coloring is identical to the caret in the dark theme. Unfortunately, we did not catch this.
To get around the issue you can darken the default colors in the Options:
PowerRegEx Options Match Color.png
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whiggs2
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Re: Cursor disappears in PowerRegEx

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Thank you. Much better.
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