Discarding an unneeded extra freeing of the help text.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@5366 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d49e6f9b3a42d4d0cbbd5d55b483fa93328360fd..e1d9103729690fea8f1fd7d069a73e5e5d501d72 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
        when they will be intialized right away.
        * src/files.c (make_new_buffer): Don't bother with a separate function
        when it's used only once, right there.
+       * src/help.c (help_init): Since the new SIGWINCH handling, a resizing
+       of the window will no longer break out of the help viewer, so there is
+       no need any more for an extra freeing of the help text.
 
 2015-08-13  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
        * src/search.c (do_find_bracket): Remove mistaken comparison between

diff --git a/src/help.c b/src/help.c
index e473f4059a1045050869fa8c3e54fab6ee07e87e..8b3a0d5a793267fa01b00990122ff27c31712427 100644 (file)
--- a/src/help.c
+++ b/src/help.c
@@ -183,15 +183,12 @@ void do_help(void)
 #endif
        edit_refresh();
 
-    /* The help_init() at the beginning allocated help_text.  Since
-     * help_text has now been written to the screen, we don't need it
-     * anymore. */
+    /* We're exiting from the help screen. */
     free(help_text);
-    help_text = NULL;
 }
 
-/* This function allocates help_text, and stores the help string in it.
- * help_text should be NULL initially. */
+/* Allocate space for the help text for the current menu, and concatenate
+ * the different pieces of text into it. */
 void help_init(void)
 {
     size_t allocsize = 0;
@@ -390,10 +387,6 @@ void help_init(void)
     }
 #endif
 
-    /* help_text has been freed and set to NULL unless the user resized
-     * while in the help screen. */
-    free(help_text);
-
     /* Allocate space for the help text. */
     help_text = charalloc(allocsize + 1);
 
@@ -475,8 +468,7 @@ void help_init(void)
        SET(WHITESPACE_DISPLAY);
 #endif /* !NANO_TINY */
 
-    /* If all went well, we didn't overwrite the allocated space for
-     * help_text. */
+    /* If all went well, we didn't overwrite the allocated space. */
     assert(strlen(help_text) <= allocsize + 1);
 }