The docs for MultiPattern::reparse explain that the 'append' argument should be set to true if the new query string contains the old query string as a prefix.

However, it seems to me that this does not consider the case when there is a trailing \? I had to add this extra check downstream in nucleo_picker in order to get proper search results.

It seems plausible to me that this is also a bug in helix: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/db1d84256fbae21abb3ba46943fb1abb8e211355/helix-term/src/ui/picker.rs#L539

I guess either this is actually an error (and the reparse method should be fixed) or it should be clarified in the documentation that one also needs to check for the presence of a trailing \.

Edit: Seems to be a missing check here