diff --git a/terminus-terminal/src/components/searchPanel.component.ts b/terminus-terminal/src/components/searchPanel.component.ts
index 2e9a8dae..31d07766 100644
--- a/terminus-terminal/src/components/searchPanel.component.ts
+++ b/terminus-terminal/src/components/searchPanel.component.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { Component, Input, Output, EventEmitter } from '@angular/core'
 import { ToastrService } from 'ngx-toastr'
 import { Frontend, SearchOptions } from '../frontends/frontend'
+import {ConfigService} from "terminus-core";
 
 @Component({
     selector: 'search-panel',
@@ -13,12 +14,14 @@ export class SearchPanelComponent {
     notFound = false
     options: SearchOptions = {
         incremental: true,
+        regex: this.config.store.terminal.searchRegexAlwaysEnabled,
     }
 
     @Output() close = new EventEmitter()
 
     constructor (
         private toastr: ToastrService,
+        public config: ConfigService,
     ) { }
 
     onQueryChange (): void {
diff --git a/terminus-terminal/src/components/terminalSettingsTab.component.pug b/terminus-terminal/src/components/terminalSettingsTab.component.pug
index 481f1121..ec653284 100644
--- a/terminus-terminal/src/components/terminalSettingsTab.component.pug
+++ b/terminus-terminal/src/components/terminalSettingsTab.component.pug
@@ -116,6 +116,14 @@ h3.mb-3 Terminal
         [(ngModel)]='config.store.terminal.scrollOnInput',
         (ngModelChange)='config.save()',
     )
+    
+.form-line
+    .header
+        .title Regex in search always enabled
+    toggle(
+        [(ngModel)]='config.store.terminal.searchRegexAlwaysEnabled',
+        (ngModelChange)='config.save()',
+    )
 
 .form-line
     .header
diff --git a/terminus-terminal/src/config.ts b/terminus-terminal/src/config.ts
index 9511981d..c779af2e 100644
--- a/terminus-terminal/src/config.ts
+++ b/terminus-terminal/src/config.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ export class TerminalConfigProvider extends ConfigProvider {
             recoverTabs: true,
             warnOnMultilinePaste: true,
             showDefaultProfiles: true,
+            searchRegexAlwaysEnabled: false,
         },
     }