diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6d0eba1b7c7a3fee3a5aa07d5debb8ffdfe88eb7..4b561a8ca45ca050f83479f311a6ac298e0f0a68 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ General
 	  modify_control_key.  Removed #ifdef _POSIX_VDISABLE check
 	  around Control-S,Q,Z handlers because we need it now for
 	  the Alt-Alt-x code.
+	- Added --view option to getopt_long()call .  Bug discovered 
+	  by Rocco Corsi.
   help_init()
 	- Fix off by one error that was making ^G help in normal mode and
 	  ^_ in pico mode not be displayed in the help (bug discovered by
diff --git a/nano.c b/nano.c
index 9acc1779adf065e27b6fefc55095dd6a22ca1e14..863ff0cbef6da886b0f3262610abd72360badee5 100644
--- a/nano.c
+++ b/nano.c
@@ -2053,6 +2053,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	{"nowrap", 0, 0, 'w'},
 	{"nohelp", 0, 0, 'x'},
 	{"help", 0, 0, 'h'},
+	{"view", 0, 0, 'v'},
 #ifndef NANO_SMALL
 	{"cut", 0, 0, 'k'},
 #endif