diff -u nano/files.c nano-hist/files.c
--- nano/files.c	Sun Feb  2 23:15:37 2003
+++ nano-hist/files.c	Sun Feb  2 23:27:06 2003
@@ -2933,7 +2933,7 @@
 	    chmod(nanohist, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
 	    /* write oldest first */
 	    for (h = search_history.tail ; h->prev ; h = h->prev) {
-		h->data = nrealloc(h->data, strlen(h->data) + 1);
+		h->data = nrealloc(h->data, strlen(h->data) + 2);
 		strcat(h->data, "\n");
 		if (fputs(h->data, hist) == EOF) {
 		    rcfile_msg(_("Unable to write ~/.nano_history file, %s"), strerror(errno));
@@ -2945,7 +2945,7 @@
 		    goto come_from;
 	    }
 	    for (h = replace_history.tail ; h->prev ; h = h->prev) {
-		h->data = nrealloc(h->data, strlen(h->data) + 1);
+		h->data = nrealloc(h->data, strlen(h->data) + 2);
 		strcat(h->data, "\n");
 		if (fputs(h->data, hist) == EOF) {
 		    rcfile_msg(_("Unable to write ~/.nano_history file, %s"), strerror(errno));