selectionMatch ignores surrounding whitespace

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When CodeMirror highlights selection matches it ignores surrounding whitespace in the selection.

Given the text

// foobarbaz
// foobar
// barbaz
  bar

if you select the entire last line, any occurrence of “bar” in the previous lines will be highlighted despite having a different prefix and suffix:

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vscode for comparison considers the whitespace:
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Is the CodeMirror behavior by design? If yes, is there an option to only highlight exact matches?

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Where that came from is lost to git history (it was already there in the patch that moves this code into @codemirror/search), but I don’t see a particularly good reason for it to work this way, so this patch removes it.

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