diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 2d104ac..5aee804 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ corrections:
 	Options shut-down and shut-close did not work.
 	Thanks to Stefan Schimanski for providing a patch.
 
+	There was a bug in printing readline log message caused by a misleading
+	indentation.
+	Thanks to Paul Wouters for reporting.
+
 porting:
 	Type conflict between int and sig_atomic_t between declaration and
 	definition of diag_immediate_type and diag_immediate_exit broke
diff --git a/xio-readline.c b/xio-readline.c
index 3f1b015..24ee757 100644
--- a/xio-readline.c
+++ b/xio-readline.c
@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@ static int xioopen_readline(int argc, const char *argv[], struct opt *opts,
    if ((rw+1)&1) {
       strcpy(cp, "readline on stdin for reading"); cp = strchr(cp, '\0');
 
-      if ((rw+1)&2)
-	 strcpy(cp, " and ");  cp = strchr(cp, '\0');
+      if ((rw+1)&2) {
+	 strcpy(cp, " and ");
+	 cp = strchr(cp, '\0');
+      }
    }
    if ((rw+1)&2) {
       strcpy(cp, "stdio for writing"); cp = strchr(cp, '\0');