1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 4552af6c3..5f58fe27a 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -746,7 +746,9 @@ static void process_file(FILE * file)
 restart:
                 /* for every line, go through all the commands */
                 for (sed_cmd = sed_cmd_head.next; sed_cmd; sed_cmd = sed_cmd->next) {
-                        int matched;
+                        int old_matched, matched;
+
+                        old_matched = sed_cmd->in_match;
 
                         /* Determine if this command matches this line: */
 
@@ -783,7 +785,7 @@ restart:
                                                         : sed_cmd->end_line<=linenum
                                                 : !sed_cmd->end_match)
                                         /* or does this line matches our last address regex */
-                                        || (sed_cmd->end_match && (regexec(sed_cmd->end_match, pattern_space, 0, NULL, 0) == 0))
+                                        || (sed_cmd->end_match && old_matched && (regexec(sed_cmd->end_match, pattern_space, 0, NULL, 0) == 0))
                                 );
                         }