diff --git a/internal/git/grep.go b/internal/git/grep.go
index 98224c8099dabd9c0c8aa150d24fd7ecaf529610..d10c933d7ff46488ec10e45f75660a84df577b8f 100644
--- a/internal/git/grep.go
+++ b/internal/git/grep.go
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ }
 
 // Grep performs a naive "code search" via git grep
 func (r Repo) Grep(search string) ([]GrepResult, error) {
-	// Plain-text search only
-	re, err := regexp.Compile(regexp.QuoteMeta(search))
+	if strings.HasPrefix(search, "=") {
+		search = regexp.QuoteMeta(strings.TrimPrefix(search, "="))
+	}
+	re, err := regexp.Compile(search)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}