From 9f1b8347f599f67be33242e249b51ee8095ce5d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul Gauthier (aider)" <aider@paulg.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:58:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: simplify regex pattern for matching AI comments

---
 aider/watch.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/watch.py b/aider/watch.py
index 8f4f74098..511f6fc7a 100644
--- a/aider/watch.py
+++ b/aider/watch.py
@@ -113,8 +113,7 @@ def watch_source_files(
             with open(path_abs, encoding=encoding, errors="ignore") as f:
                 content = f.read()
 
-                # ai: don't just match at start of line
-                res = bool(re.search(r"(?:^|\n)(?:#|//) *ai\b", content, re.IGNORECASE))
+                res = bool(re.search(r"(?:#|//) *ai\b", content, re.IGNORECASE))
                 if VERBOSE: dump(res)
                 return res
         except (IOError, UnicodeDecodeError) as err: