diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 30fe15366dcda25069f2da78071c0b8a1d88d776..0ae4090067af5a6722dfb70318b6dfe406449f3a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ CVS changes -
 - nano.c
   main()
 	- Added check for _POSIX_VDISABLE around term variable definition.
+- search.c
+	- Added initializations for last_search and last_replace (Rocco Corsi)
+
 nano 0.9.18 - 09/18/2000
 - General
 	- Changed _POSIX_VERSION checks in regex code to HAVE_REGEX_H, 
diff --git a/po/nano.pot b/po/nano.pot
index da1198d31081767d47620ca481be970f4933b944..f10c7adb1465cc143b02f95dfdbe29198818695e 100644
--- a/po/nano.pot
+++ b/po/nano.pot
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2000-09-26 23:11-0400\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2000-10-01 13:58-0400\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
diff --git a/search.c b/search.c
index f6b63f7dedd18e16f7511a7120841ed6b3a424f0..783635c48385c520ffee4bc50252a54db4f3a269 100644
--- a/search.c
+++ b/search.c
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
 #define _(string) (string)
 #endif
 
-static char last_search[132];		/* Last string we searched for */
-static char last_replace[132];		/* Last replacement string */
+static char last_search[132] = "";	/* Last string we searched for */
+static char last_replace[132] = "";	/* Last replacement string */
 
 /* Regular expression helper functions */