I am unsure if the design was intended to be greedy, however for my macro I needed a lazy search since it took in a query string like: query=?show_issues=1&show_news=1&show_documents=1&show_files=1&show_wiki_edits=1. The current method matches "query=?show_issues=1&show_news=1&show_documents=1&show_files=1&show_wiki_edits" : "1". When I look for options[:query] it returns nil. By using a lazy search, I get the intended result: "query" : "?show_issues=1&show_news=1&show_documents=1&show_files=1&show_wiki_edits=1"

Perhaps we should be able to specify if greedy or lazy?

I have attached my "quite simple" patch.