diff --git a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/extension.ts b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/extension.ts
index 54df310148..1a5039f12b 100644
--- a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/extension.ts
+++ b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/extension.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import {
 import { KeyboardCommands } from "./keyboard/KeyboardCommands";
 import { registerCommands } from "./registerCommands";
 import { ReleaseNotes } from "./ReleaseNotes";
+import { revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange } from "./revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange";
 import { ScopeTreeProvider } from "./ScopeTreeProvider";
 import {
   ScopeVisualizer,
@@ -100,6 +101,9 @@ export async function activate(
   const statusBarItem = StatusBarItem.create("cursorless.showQuickPick");
   const keyboardCommands = KeyboardCommands.create(context, statusBarItem);
   const scopeVisualizer = createScopeVisualizer(normalizedIde, scopeProvider);
+  context.subscriptions.push(
+    revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange(scopeVisualizer, scopeProvider),
+  );
 
   new ScopeTreeProvider(
     vscodeApi,
diff --git a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange.ts b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ea757d894c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import {
+  Disposable,
+  ScopeProvider,
+  ScopeTypeInfo,
+  disposableFrom,
+} from "@cursorless/common";
+import { isEqual } from "lodash";
+import {
+  ScopeVisualizer,
+  VisualizationType,
+} from "./ScopeVisualizerCommandApi";
+
+/**
+ * Attempts to ensure that the scope visualizer is still visualizing the same
+ * scope type after the user changes one of their custom regexes. Because custom
+ * regexes don't have a unique identifier, we have to do some guesswork to
+ * figure out which custom regex the user changed. This function look for a
+ * custom regex with the same spoken form as the one that was changed, and if it
+ * finds one, it starts visualizing that one instead.
+ *
+ * @param scopeVisualizer The scope visualizer to listen to
+ * @param scopeProvider Provides scope information
+ * @returns A {@link Disposable} which will stop the callback from running
+ */
+export function revisualizeOnCustomRegexChange(
+  scopeVisualizer: ScopeVisualizer,
+  scopeProvider: ScopeProvider,
+): Disposable {
+  let currentRegexScopeInfo: ScopeTypeInfo | undefined;
+  let currentVisualizationType: VisualizationType | undefined;
+
+  return disposableFrom(
+    scopeVisualizer.onDidChangeScopeType((scopeType, visualizationType) => {
+      currentRegexScopeInfo =
+        scopeType?.type === "customRegex"
+          ? scopeProvider.getScopeInfo(scopeType)
+          : undefined;
+      currentVisualizationType = visualizationType;
+    }),
+
+    scopeProvider.onDidChangeScopeInfo((scopeInfos) => {
+      if (
+        currentRegexScopeInfo != null &&
+        !scopeInfos.some((scopeInfo) =>
+          isEqual(scopeInfo.scopeType, currentRegexScopeInfo!.scopeType),
+        )
+      ) {
+        const replacement = scopeInfos.find(
+          (scopeInfo) =>
+            scopeInfo.scopeType.type === "customRegex" &&
+            isEqual(scopeInfo.spokenForm, currentRegexScopeInfo!.spokenForm),
+        );
+        if (replacement != null) {
+          scopeVisualizer.start(
+            replacement.scopeType,
+            currentVisualizationType!,
+          );
+        }
+      }
+    }),
+  );
+}