diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 144c51cc..3fcda31f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ Other changes:
   title, note the charset.  Don't truncate titles to the width of the
   terminal.
 * bug 1061: Correctly truncate UTF-8 titles in the tab bar.
+* Don't crash when the search-toggle-regex action is used and no regular
+  expression support is compiled in.
 * minor bug 761: When reading bookmarks from an XBEL file, distinguish
   attribute names from attribute values.
 * enhancement: Updated ISO 8859-7, ISO 8859-16, KOI8-R, and MacRoman.
diff --git a/src/viewer/text/search.c b/src/viewer/text/search.c
index 4b9dc20e..83656dce 100644
--- a/src/viewer/text/search.c
+++ b/src/viewer/text/search.c
@@ -1423,9 +1423,11 @@ text_typeahead_handler(struct input_line *line, int action_id)
 				get_opt_rec(config_options,
 					    "document.browse.search.regex");
 
-			opt->value.number = (opt->value.number + 1)
-					    % (opt->max + 1);
-			option_changed(ses, opt);
+			if (opt) {
+				opt->value.number = (opt->value.number + 1)
+						    % (opt->max + 1);
+				option_changed(ses, opt);
+			}
 		}
 		/* Fall thru */