diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 6c0fc52..c86f70d 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ Authors/contributors include:
 © 2015 Tai Chi Minh Ralph Eastwood <tcmreastwood@gmail.com>
 © 2015 Quentin Rameau <quinq@quinq.eu.org>
 © 2015 Dionysis Grigoropoulos <info@erethon.com>
-© 2015 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <first.lord.of.teal@gmail.com>
+© 2015 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <wcm@sigwinch.xyz>
 © 2016 Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
 © 2016 Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>
diff --git a/ed.c b/ed.c
index 184ed30..0cf9fb9 100644
--- a/ed.c
+++ b/ed.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ search(int way)
 	i = curln;
 	do {
 		i = (way == '?') ? prevln(i) : nextln(i);
-		if (match(i))
+		if (i > 0 && match(i))
 			return i;
 	} while (i != curln);