diff --git a/tests/sed.test b/tests/sed.test
index 91f6b6e3..e3045f7e 100755
--- a/tests/sed.test
+++ b/tests/sed.test
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ testcmd '-z' '-z "s/\n/-/g"' "a-b-c" "" "a\nb\nc"
 testcmd '-z N' '-z N' 'one\0two\0' '' 'one\0two\0'
 testcmd 'p noeol' '-z p' 'one\0one' '' 'one'
 testcmd '-z N noeol' '-z N' 'one\0two' '' 'one\0two'
+testcmd '-z S' "-z 'N;P'" 'one\0one\0two' '' 'one\0two'
 
 # toybox handling of empty capturing groups broke minjail. Check that we
 # correctly replace an empty capturing group with the empty string:
diff --git a/toys/posix/sed.c b/toys/posix/sed.c
index 471c6436..444c8682 100644
--- a/toys/posix/sed.c
+++ b/toys/posix/sed.c
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static void sed_line(char **pline, long plen)
       // Pending append goes out right after N
       goto done; 
     } else if (c=='p' || c=='P') {
-      char *l = (c=='P') ? strchr(line, '\n') : 0;
+      char *l = (c=='P') ? strchr(line, TT.delim) : 0;
 
       if (emit(line, l ? l-line : len, eol)) break;
     } else if (c=='q' || c=='Q') {