diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c947dfab..3ba55783 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ CVS code -
 - nano.h:
 	- Readd MIN_EDITOR_COLS #define. (DLR)
 - doc/nanorc.sample:
-	- Tweak the "c-file" regex for characters to properly handle
-	  '\"'. (DLR)
+	- Tweak the "c-file" regex for characters to properly accept
+	  '\"' and reject '"' and '''. (DLR)
 
 GNU nano 1.3.9 - 2005.10.23
 - General:
diff --git a/doc/nanorc.sample b/doc/nanorc.sample
index 3fb7edff..cdaefc1f 100644
--- a/doc/nanorc.sample
+++ b/doc/nanorc.sample
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 # color brightyellow "\<(try|throw|catch|operator|new|delete)\>"
 # color magenta "\<(goto|continue|break|return)\>"
 # color brightcyan "^[[:space:]]*#[[:space:]]*(define|undef|include|ifn?def|endif|elif|else|if|warning|error)"
-# color brightmagenta "'([^\]|(\\["'abfnrtv\\]))'" "'\\(([0-7][0-7]?)|([0-3][0-7][0-7]))'" "'\\x[0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]?'"
+# color brightmagenta "'([^"'\]|(\\["'abfnrtv\\]))'" "'\\(([0-7][0-7]?)|([0-3][0-7][0-7]))'" "'\\x[0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]?'"
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 ## GCC builtins
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