diff --git a/television/utils/shell/completion.fish b/television/utils/shell/completion.fish
index dee2851..c02cb00 100644
--- a/television/utils/shell/completion.fish
+++ b/television/utils/shell/completion.fish
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ function tv_smart_autocomplete
 
     if test -n "$output"
         # add a space if the prompt does not end with one (unless the prompt is an implicit cd, e.g. '\.')
-        string match -r '.*( |./)$' -- "$current_prompt" || set current_prompt "$current_prompt "
+        string match -q -r '.*( |./)$' -- "$current_prompt" || set current_prompt "$current_prompt "
         commandline -r "$current_prompt$output"
         commandline -f repaint
     end