You didn't check to see what value opts.multiline has. It's initialized to TRUE in src/options.c. It's only set to FALSE if a user passes the undocumented --nom

You didn't check to see what value opts.multiline has. It's initialized to TRUE in src/options.c. It's only set to FALSE if a user passes the undocumented --nomultiline option to ag. Default behavior with a regex query is https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/master/src/search.c#L92-L111 https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/master/sr...