diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 93e9bf58c..a99116fa3 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Detailed list of changes
 
 - show_key kitten: In kitty mode show the actual bytes sent by the terminal rather than a re-encoding of the parsed key event
 
+- hints kitten: Fix a regression in 0.28.0 that broke using sub-groups in regexp captures (:iss:`6228`)
+
 0.28.1 [2023-04-21]
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/kittens/hints/marks.go b/kittens/hints/marks.go
index 78b754b0a..f61cc9276 100644
--- a/kittens/hints/marks.go
+++ b/kittens/hints/marks.go
@@ -314,6 +314,12 @@ func mark(r *regexp.Regexp, post_processors []PostProcessorFunc, group_processor
 		for k, v := range gd {
 			gd2[k] = v
 		}
+		if opts.Type == "regex" && len(names) > 1 && names[1] == "" {
+			ms, me := v[2], v[3]
+			match_start = utils.Max(match_start, ms)
+			match_end = utils.Min(match_end, me)
+			full_match = sanitize_pat.ReplaceAllLiteralString(text[match_start:match_end], "")
+		}
 		ans = append(ans, Mark{
 			Index: i, Start: match_start, End: match_end, Text: full_match, Groupdict: gd2,
 		})
diff --git a/kittens/hints/marks_test.go b/kittens/hints/marks_test.go
index 3f5a851b5..f92234971 100644
--- a/kittens/hints/marks_test.go
+++ b/kittens/hints/marks_test.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func TestHintMarking(t *testing.T) {
 		for _, m := range marks {
 			q := strings.NewReplacer("\n", "", "\r", "", "\x00", "").Replace(ptext[m.Start:m.End])
 			if diff := cmp.Diff(m.Text, q); diff != "" {
-				t.Fatalf("Mark start and end dont point to correct offset in text for %#v\n%s", text, diff)
+				t.Fatalf("Mark start (%d) and end (%d) dont point to correct offset in text for %#v\n%s", m.Start, m.End, text, diff)
 			}
 		}
 		return
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ func TestHintMarking(t *testing.T) {
 	r(`255.255.255.256`)
 	r(`:1`)
 
+	reset()
+	opts.Type = "regex"
+	opts.Regex = `(?ms)^[*]?\s(\S+)`
+	r(`* 2b687c2 - test1`, `2b687c2`)
+
 	reset()
 	tdir := t.TempDir()
 	simple := filepath.Join(tdir, "simple.py")