diff -u nano/nano.c nano-help/nano.c
--- nano/nano.c	Wed Feb  5 09:24:04 2003
+++ nano-help/nano.c	Wed Feb  5 09:38:19 2003
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@
      * COLS - 24 characters, plus '\n'.*/
     if (currshortcut == main_list)
 	for (t = toggles; t != NULL; t = t->next)
-	    allocsize += COLS - 17;
+	    allocsize += 7 + (COLS > 24 ? COLS - 24 : 0);
 #endif /* !NANO_SMALL */
 
     /* help_text has been freed and set to NULL unless the user resized
@@ -448,16 +448,25 @@
 	*(ptr++) = '\t';
 
 	assert(s->help != NULL);
-	ptr += sprintf(ptr, "%.*s\n", COLS - 24, s->help);
+	ptr += sprintf(ptr, "%.*s\n", COLS > 24 ? COLS - 24 : 0, s->help);
     }
 
 #ifndef NANO_SMALL
     /* And the toggles... */
     if (currshortcut == main_list)
 	for (t = toggles; t != NULL; t = t->next) {
+	    int foo = COLS > 24 ? COLS - 24 : 0;
+	    int num_prnt;
+
 	    ptr += sprintf(ptr, "M-%c\t\t\t", t->val - 32);
 	    assert(t->desc != NULL);
-	    ptr += sprintf(ptr, _("%.*s enable/disable\n"), COLS - 24, t->desc);
+	    if (COLS > 24) {
+		int num_prnt = sprintf(ptr, "%.*s", COLS - 24, t->desc);
+
+		ptr += num_prnt;
+		ptr += sprintf(ptr, _(" enable/disable\n"),
+				COLS - 24 - num_prnt);
+	    }
 	}
 #endif /* !NANO_SMALL */