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since /regex/ (as well as ~"regex") is only a shortcut for an instance of java.util.regex.Pattern editor should be able to recognize it and offer Pattern methods in code completion (at least for cases like "/regex/.|")
Type inference related.
This is improvement in fact..
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 152778 ***