diff --git a/data/core/tokenizer.lua b/data/core/tokenizer.lua
index 5fd8c69f..bb3faa03 100644
--- a/data/core/tokenizer.lua
+++ b/data/core/tokenizer.lua
@@ -136,20 +136,42 @@ function tokenizer.tokenize(incoming_syntax, text, state)
   end
   
   local function find_text(text, p, offset, at_start, close)
-    local target, res = p.pattern or p.regex, { 1, offset - 1 }, p.regex
-    local code = type(target) == "table" and target[close and 2 or 1] or target
+    local target, res = p.pattern or p.regex, { 1, offset - 1 }
+    local p_idx = close and 2 or 1
+    local code = type(target) == "table" and target[p_idx] or target
+
+    if p.whole_line == nil then p.whole_line = { } end
+    if p.whole_line[p_idx] == nil then
+      -- Match patterns that start with '^'
+      p.whole_line[p_idx] = code:match("^%^") and true or false
+      if p.whole_line[p_idx] then
+        -- Remove '^' from the beginning of the pattern
+        if type(target) == "table" then
+          target[p_idx] = code:sub(2)
+        else
+          p.pattern = p.pattern and code:sub(2)
+          p.regex = p.regex and code:sub(2)
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
     if p.regex and type(p.regex) ~= "table" then
       p._regex = p._regex or regex.compile(p.regex)
       code = p._regex
-    end    
+    end
+
     repeat
       local next = res[2] + 1
+      -- If the pattern contained '^', allow matching only the whole line
+      if p.whole_line[p_idx] and next > 1 then
+        return
+      end
       -- go to the start of the next utf-8 character
       while text:byte(next) and common.is_utf8_cont(text, next) do
         next = next + 1
       end
-      res = p.pattern and { text:find(at_start and "^" .. code or code, next) }
-        or { regex.match(code, text, next, at_start and regex.ANCHORED or 0) }
+      res = p.pattern and { text:find((at_start or p.whole_line[p_idx]) and "^" .. code or code, next) }
+        or { regex.match(code, text, next, (at_start or p.whole_line[p_idx]) and regex.ANCHORED or 0) }
       if res[1] and close and target[3] then
         local count = 0
         for i = res[1] - 1, 1, -1 do
diff --git a/src/api/regex.c b/src/api/regex.c
index 08f0f142..6a0aac7a 100644
--- a/src/api/regex.c
+++ b/src/api/regex.c
@@ -60,12 +60,14 @@ static int f_pcre_match(lua_State *L) {
   const char* str = luaL_checklstring(L, 2, &len);
   if (lua_gettop(L) > 2)
     offset = luaL_checknumber(L, 3);
+  offset -= 1;
+  len -= offset;
   if (lua_gettop(L) > 3)
     opts = luaL_checknumber(L, 4);
   lua_rawgeti(L, 1, 1);
   pcre2_code* re = (pcre2_code*)lua_touserdata(L, -1);
   pcre2_match_data* md = pcre2_match_data_create_from_pattern(re, NULL);
-  int rc = pcre2_match(re, (PCRE2_SPTR)str, len, offset - 1, opts, md, NULL);
+  int rc = pcre2_match(re, (PCRE2_SPTR)&str[offset], len, 0, opts, md, NULL);
   if (rc < 0) {
     pcre2_match_data_free(md);
     if (rc != PCRE2_ERROR_NOMATCH) {
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ static int f_pcre_match(lua_State *L) {
     return 0;
   }
   for (int i = 0; i < rc*2; i++)
-    lua_pushnumber(L, ovector[i]+1);
+    lua_pushnumber(L, ovector[i]+offset+1);
   pcre2_match_data_free(md);
   return rc*2;
 }