From b248f6bb32d5bd02c2b855cc23228e1da977f602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:51:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * help.c (help_handle_key): Sanity check for broken help
 files. From David Martin <dmartina@excite.com>

---
 src/ChangeLog |  5 +++++
 src/help.c    | 11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index a5e0964a5..6afd9397f 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-09-05  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
+
+	* help.c (help_handle_key): Sanity check for broken help files.
+	From David Martin <dmartina@excite.com>
+
 2002-09-03  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
 	* global.h: Eliminate xgetch, update all dependencies.
diff --git a/src/help.c b/src/help.c
index 235095c80..9b144d330 100644
--- a/src/help.c
+++ b/src/help.c
@@ -690,10 +690,13 @@ static int help_handle_key (struct Dlg_head *h, int c)
 	while (*new_item && *new_item != CHAR_NODE_END)
 	    new_item++;
 	if (*++new_item == '['){
-	    while (*new_item != ']')
-		new_item++;
-	    currentpoint = new_item + 2;
-	    selected_item = NULL;
+	    while (*++new_item) {
+		if (*new_item == ']' && *++newitem && *++newitem) {
+		    currentpoint = new_item;
+		    selected_item = NULL;
+		    break;
+		}
+	    }
 	}
 	break;