1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 84aea9b0a..5fc3a14a5 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -194,7 +194,11 @@ static int get_address(struct sed_cmd *sed_cmd, const char *str, int *linenum, r
                 *linenum = -1;
                 idx++;
         }
-        else if (my_str[idx] == '/') {
+        else if (my_str[idx] == '/' || my_str[idx] == '\\') {
+                if (my_str[idx] == '\\') {
+                        my_str[idx] = 0;
+                        sed_cmd-> delimiter = my_str[++idx];
+                }
                 idx = index_of_next_unescaped_regexp_delim(sed_cmd, my_str, ++idx);
                 if (idx == -1)
                         error_msg_and_die("unterminated match expression");