diff --git a/src/screen.c b/src/screen.c
index ac531d4..db26046 100644
--- a/src/screen.c
+++ b/src/screen.c
@@ -7119,7 +7119,7 @@
 		NULL
 #endif
 		);
-	if (called_emsg)
+	if (called_emsg || got_int)
 	{
 	    /* Error while handling regexp: stop using this regexp. */
 	    if (shl == &search_hl)