diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7e773b541b11aed3889ee550d4c55cd054d2c0d7..5ed99bdb4f46b4c5e98c51264d9e14f2bbf5dd3e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 	to always set 'currmenu', so that we can rely on it.
 	* src/*.c (get_shortcut): Now that 'currmenu' is really global,
 	stop passing it around.
+	* src/help.c (help_init), src/winio.c (bottombars): There are
+	no tagless functions, so there is no need to check.
 
 2014-06-30  Mark Majeres  <mark@engine12.com>
 	* src/cut.c, src/global.c, src/nano.c: Rename 'cut_till_end' to
diff --git a/src/help.c b/src/help.c
index 4bb2aa26b0ab1673dada8255e26a3296a82797bc..90696b237393b25daced0b7023d2590ab5241013 100644
--- a/src/help.c
+++ b/src/help.c
@@ -410,9 +410,6 @@ void help_init(void)
 	if ((f->menus & currmenu) == 0)
 	    continue;
 
-	if (!f->desc || f->desc[0] == '\0')
-	    continue;
-
 	/* Let's simply show the first two shortcuts from the list. */
 	for (s = sclist, scsfound = 0; s != NULL; s = s->next) {
 
diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index 04cd6d0b267fe9969ee46e99d74bb0d83bbb493c..5e60857e61436943babb2ef0c31539d0fc203129 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -2396,9 +2396,6 @@ void bottombars(int menu)
 	if ((f->menus & menu) == 0)
 	    continue;
 
-	if (!f->desc || strlen(f->desc) == 0)
-	    continue;
-
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	fprintf(stderr, "found one! f->menus = %x, desc = \"%s\"\n", f->menus, f->desc);
 #endif