Wrong highlighting with "<" lower than symbol

[ghost]

Whenever I introduce the lower than symbol "<" in a textare the highlighting does not work properly, it does not highlight the words I set to highlight. maybe a flag or something to disable this ?

[manueljeffin]

Hi,
I have the same problem. Did you find a solution for this?

[rlamorea]

The problem lies in the fact that the regexes in the words list are run through an HTML pass, so the less-than symbol is getting converted into &lt in the regex. This is actually wrong. Not sure why word content is being changed to HTML since the word regex applies to the value of the textarea, not the HTML display of it as far as I can tell.

[leomontenegro6]

I'm getting the same issue above. Can't find a way to highlight tags in a format similar to HTML, where there's some text inside "<" and ">".

It works fine for curly brackets, though.