diff --git a/common/content/completion.js b/common/content/completion.js
index c4370555..ce1743cb 100644
--- a/common/content/completion.js
+++ b/common/content/completion.js
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ const Completion = Module("completion", {
 
         options.add(["wildanchor", "wia"],
             "Regexp list defining which contexts require matches anchored to the begining of the result",
-            "regexlist", "!/ex/(back|buffer|ext|forward|help|undo),.*");
+            "regexlist", "!/ex/(back|buffer|ext|forward|help|undo)");
 
         options.add(["wildcase", "wic"],
             "Completion case matching mode",
diff --git a/common/locale/en-US/options.xml b/common/locale/en-US/options.xml
index 63079ee7..777b7d89 100644
--- a/common/locale/en-US/options.xml
+++ b/common/locale/en-US/options.xml
@@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@
     <tags>'wia' 'wildanchor'</tags>
     <spec>'wildanchor' 'wia'</spec>
     <type>regexlist</type>
-    <default>!/ex/(back|buffer|ext|forward|help|undo),.*</default>
+    <default>!/ex/(back|buffer|ext|forward|help|undo)</default>
     <description>
         <p>
             Regular expression list defining which completion groups show only