Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of null

[Hugo1974]

Error when there is an empty selection. The selection is made from left to right.

Thrown From: multi-highlight-selected package 2.0.0

Stack Trace

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of null

At highlighted-area-view.coffee:102

96 # Highlights everything that belongs to one color (ie, all instances of the
97 # first word, make red)
98 highLightOneSelection: (text, i) ->
99 editor = @getActiveEditor()
100 regex = new RegExp("\S*\w*\b", 'gi')
101 result = regex.exec(text)
102 regexSearch = result[0]

103 return unless result?
104 return if result[0].length < atom.config.get(
105 'highlight-selected.minimumLength') or
106 result.index isnt 0 or
107 result[0] isnt result.input

TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of null
at HighlightedAreaView.module.exports.HighlightedAreaView.highLightOneSelection (/packages/multi-highlight-selected/lib/highlighted-area-view.coffee:102:26)
at HighlightedAreaView.module.exports.HighlightedAreaView.handleSelection (/packages/multi-highlight-selected/lib/highlighted-area-view.coffee:93:8)
at HighlightedAreaView.handleSelection (/packages/multi-highlight-selected/lib/highlighted-area-view.coffee:1:1)
at /packages/multi-highlight-selected/lib/highlighted-area-view.coffee:48:8

### Commands

4x -8:06.5.0 editor:move-line-up (input.hidden-input)
-8:03.6.0 core:move-left (input.hidden-input)
-8:02.7.0 editor:select-to-beginning-of-word (input.hidden-input)
-8:00.0 autocomplete-plus:confirm (input.hidden-input)
4x -7:59 core:save (input.hidden-input)
-7:41.5.0 core:move-right (input.hidden-input)
-7:40.8.0 core:move-left (input.hidden-input)
3x -7:37 core:save (input.hidden-input)
29x -7:14.7.0 core:undo (input.hidden-input)
2x -7:12.9.0 core:save (input.hidden-input)
-5:56.5.0 core:delete (div.github-StagingView.staged-changes-focused)
-4:46.2.0 window:run-package-specs (atom-pane.pane)
-4:19.8.0 atom-beautify:open-settings (atom-pane.pane)
-2:47.7.0 core:save (button.btn.icon.enablement.icon-playback-play)
-1:47.8.0 grammar-selector:show (atom-text-editor.editor.is-focused)
-1:46.1.0 core:confirm (input.hidden-input)

[ThorsenRune]

Any workaround? Got that error "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of null" too.