diff -u nano/global.c nano-fish/global.c
--- nano/global.c	Sat Feb  1 00:18:21 2003
+++ nano-fish/global.c	Sun Feb  2 21:39:52 2003
@@ -856,7 +856,10 @@
 #ifdef ENABLE_MULTIBUFFER
     if (open_files != NULL) {
 	/* We free the memory associated with each open file. */
+	while (open_files->prev != NULL)
+	    open_files = open_files->prev;
 	free_openfilestruct(open_files);
+    }
 #else
     if (fileage != NULL)
 	free_filestruct(fileage);
@@ -872,16 +875,15 @@
 	    exttype *bob = syntaxes->extensions;
 
 	    syntaxes->extensions = bob->next;
-	    regfree(&bob->val);
+	    free(bob->val);
 	    free(bob);
 	}
 	while (syntaxes->color != NULL) {
 	    colortype *bob = syntaxes->color;
 
 	    syntaxes->color = bob->next;
-	    regfree(&bob->start);
-	    if (bob->end != NULL)
-		regfree(&bob->end);
+	    free(bob->start);
+	    free(bob->end);
 	    free(bob);
 	}
 	syntaxes = syntaxes->next;