diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9c7e8011..2d89b3b8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -816,6 +816,41 @@ which can be caught as:
 cat sensitive.go | srgn --go-query '(field_declaration name: (field_identifier) @name tag: (raw_string_literal) @tag (#match? @name "[tT]oken") (#not-eq? @tag "`json:\"-\"`"))' --fail-any # will fail
 ```
 
+###### Ignoring parts of matches
+
+Occassionally, parts of a match need to be ignored, for example when no suitable
+tree-sitter node type is available. For example, say we'd like to replace the `error`
+with `wrong` inside the string of the macro body:
+
+```rust wrong.rs
+fn wrong() {
+    let wrong = "wrong";
+    error!("This went error");
+}
+```
+
+Let's assume there's a node type for matching *entire* macros (`macro_invocation`) and
+one to match macro *names* (`((macro_invocation macro: (identifier) @name))`), but
+*none* to match macro *contents* (this is wrong, tree-sitter offers this in the form of
+`token_tree`, but let's imagine...). To match just `"This went error"`, the entire macro
+would need to be matched, with the name part ignored. Any capture name containing
+`IGNORE` will provide just that:
+
+```bash
+cat wrong.rs | srgn --rust-query '((macro_invocation macro: (identifier) @IGNORE_name) @macro)' 'error' 'wrong'
+```
+
+```rust output-wrong.rs
+fn wrong() {
+    let wrong = "wrong";
+    error!("This went wrong");
+}
+```
+
+If it weren't ignored, the result would read `wrong!("This went wrong");`.
+
+###### Further reading
+
 These matching expressions are a mouthful. A couple resources exist for getting started
 with your own queries:
 
diff --git a/src/scoping/langs/mod.rs b/src/scoping/langs/mod.rs
index 455c9051..7d6e08fd 100644
--- a/src/scoping/langs/mod.rs
+++ b/src/scoping/langs/mod.rs
@@ -131,11 +131,22 @@ pub trait LanguageScoper: Scoper {
 
         let ranges = run(query);
 
-        let has_ignore = query.capture_names().iter().any(|name| name == IGNORE);
+        let is_ignored = |name: &str| name.contains(IGNORE);
+        let has_ignored_captures = query.capture_names().iter().any(|name| is_ignored(name));
 
-        if has_ignore {
+        if has_ignored_captures {
             let ignored_ranges = {
-                disable_all_captures_except(IGNORE, query);
+                let acknowledged_captures = query
+                    .capture_names()
+                    .iter()
+                    .filter(|name| !is_ignored(name))
+                    .cloned()
+                    .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+                for name in acknowledged_captures {
+                    trace!("Disabling capture for: {:?}", name);
+                    query.disable_capture(&name);
+                }
 
                 debug!("Query has captures to ignore: running additional query");
                 run(query)
@@ -150,12 +161,3 @@ pub trait LanguageScoper: Scoper {
         }
     }
 }
-
-fn disable_all_captures_except(capture_name: &str, query: &mut TSQuery) {
-    let capture_names = query.capture_names().to_owned();
-    for name in capture_names {
-        if name != capture_name {
-            query.disable_capture(&name);
-        }
-    }
-}