diff --git a/helix-term/src/commands.rs b/helix-term/src/commands.rs
index 41284aab1..beeb7ea71 100644
--- a/helix-term/src/commands.rs
+++ b/helix-term/src/commands.rs
@@ -1910,12 +1910,10 @@ fn search_selection(cx: &mut Context) {
     let (view, doc) = current!(cx.editor);
     let contents = doc.text().slice(..);
 
-    let regex; // The fragment to set in the search register
-
     // Checks whether there is only one selection with a width of 1
     let selections = doc.selection(view.id);
     let primary = selections.primary();
-    if selections.len() == 1 && primary.len() == 1 {
+    let regex = if selections.len() == 1 && primary.len() == 1 {
         let text = doc.text();
         let text_slice = text.slice(..);
         // In this case select the WORD under the cursor
@@ -1927,16 +1925,16 @@ fn search_selection(cx: &mut Context) {
             false,
         );
         let text_to_search = current_word.fragment(text_slice).to_string();
-        regex = regex::escape(&text_to_search);
+        regex::escape(&text_to_search)
     } else {
-        regex = selections
+        selections
             .iter()
             .map(|selection| regex::escape(&selection.fragment(contents)))
             .collect::<HashSet<_>>() // Collect into hashset to deduplicate identical regexes
             .into_iter()
             .collect::<Vec<_>>()
-            .join("|");
-    }
+            .join("|")
+    };
     let msg = format!("register '{}' set to '{}'", '/', &regex);
     cx.editor.registers.push('/', regex);
     cx.editor.set_status(msg);