diff --git a/pkgs/gui-pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/text.rkt b/pkgs/gui-pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/text.rkt
index dbe60ae7..65868f35 100644
--- a/pkgs/gui-pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/text.rkt
+++ b/pkgs/gui-pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wxme/text.rkt
@@ -3559,7 +3559,7 @@
                                      just-one? beginning-of-match? case-sens? recur-inside?)
     (define end 
       (cond
-        [(equal? _end 'eof) (last-position)]
+        [(equal? _end 'eof) (if (equal? direction 'forward) (last-position) 0)]
         [else _end]))
     (define start
       (cond