Andrew Gallant c45ec16360 doc: clarify --multiline --count ...

Specifically, it is only equivalent to `--count-matches` when the
pattern(s) given can match over multiple lines.

We could have instead made `--multiline --count` always equivalent to
`--multiline --count-matches`, but this seems plausibly less useful.
Indeed, I think it's generally a good thing that users can enable
`-U/--multiline` but still use patterns that only match a single line.
Changing how that behaves would I think be more surprising.

Either way we slice this, it's unfortunately pretty subtle.

Fixes #2852

2025-09-22 22:00:15 -04:00

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