From ff07374e2a43126591328d0f66844b0e9c284bdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enrico Giordani <enricogior@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:51:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [PowerRename] don't show an error message for invalid regex
 syntax (#8857)

---
 src/modules/powerrename/lib/PowerRenameManager.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/modules/powerrename/lib/PowerRenameManager.cpp b/src/modules/powerrename/lib/PowerRenameManager.cpp
index 47ba7002032c..4089a529858e 100644
--- a/src/modules/powerrename/lib/PowerRenameManager.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/powerrename/lib/PowerRenameManager.cpp
@@ -1060,7 +1060,9 @@ DWORD WINAPI CPowerRenameManager::s_regexWorkerThread(_In_ void* pv)
     }
     catch (...)
     {
-        MessageBox(NULL, L"RegexWorkerThread failed to execute.\nPlease report the bug to https://aka.ms/powerToysReportBug", L"PowerRename Error", MB_OK);
+        // TODO: an exception can happen while typing the expression and the syntax is not correct yet,
+        // we need to be more granular and raise an exception only when a real problem happened.
+        // MessageBox(NULL, L"RegexWorkerThread failed to execute.\nPlease report the bug to https://aka.ms/powerToysReportBug", L"PowerRename Error", MB_OK);
     }
 
     return 0;