diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Revision history for skylighting and skylighting-core
 
+## 0.8.2 -- 2019-07-14
+
+  * Change matchRegex so it gives "no match" on a regex error
+    instead of raising an exception. This seems to be how Kate
+    works.  Fixes an error on long integer literals (#81).
+
 ## 0.8.1.2 -- 2019-07-14
 
   * Fix HlCChar for one-character octal escapes like '\0' (#82).
diff --git a/skylighting-core.cabal b/skylighting-core.cabal
--- a/skylighting-core.cabal
+++ b/skylighting-core.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                skylighting-core
-version:             0.8.1.2
+version:             0.8.2
 synopsis:            syntax highlighting library
 description:         Skylighting is a syntax highlighting library.
                      It derives its tokenizers from XML syntax
diff --git a/src/Skylighting/Regex.hs b/src/Skylighting/Regex.hs
--- a/src/Skylighting/Regex.hs
+++ b/src/Skylighting/Regex.hs
@@ -94,8 +94,9 @@
 matchRegex r s = case unsafePerformIO (regexec r s) of
                       Right (Just (_, mat, _ , capts)) ->
                                        Just (mat : capts)
-                      Right Nothing -> Nothing
-                      Left (_rc, msg) -> E.throw $ RegexException msg
+                      Right Nothing    -> Nothing
+                      -- treat match error as no match, like Kate: #81
+                      Left (_rc, _msg) -> Nothing
 
 -- functions to marshall bytestrings to text
 
diff --git a/test/test-skylighting.hs b/test/test-skylighting.hs
--- a/test/test-skylighting.hs
+++ b/test/test-skylighting.hs
@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@
       , testCase "c '\\0' (#82)" $ Right
            [ [ (CharTok,"'\\0'") ]
            ] @=? tokenize defConfig c "'\\0'"
+
+      , testCase "c very long integer (#81)" $ Right
+           [ [ (DecValTok, "1111111111111111111111") ]
+           ] @=? tokenize defConfig c "1111111111111111111111"
       ]
     ]