diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6e4aeb49..0fb0bd88 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ CVS code -
   get_control_kbinput()
 	- Fix erroneous debugging statement so that nano compiles with
 	  --enable-debug again. (Jon Oberheide)
+  nanogetstr()
+	- Tweak the code to update the edit window just before getting
+	  statusbar input for efficiency, and update bottomwin just
+	  before then too. (David Benbennick)
 
 GNU nano 1.3.3 - 2004.06.28
 - General:
diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index 54d13d7f..c46627e1 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -1589,7 +1589,8 @@ int nanogetstr(int allowtabs, const char *buf, const char *def,
 
     /* Make sure any editor screen updates are displayed before getting
        input */
-    wrefresh(edit);
+    wnoutrefresh(edit);
+    wrefresh(bottomwin);
 
     /* If we're using restricted mode, we aren't allowed to change the
      * name of a file once it has one because that would allow writing