diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d68be569..1cbd47c2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 23 April 2009
 
+* Support NEL, yet another way of making newline. Fixes the output from some
+  Gentoo packaging thing. Reported by someone on SF then logs that allowed a
+  fix sent by tcunha.
 * Use the xenl terminfo flag to detect early-wrap terminals like the FreeBSD
   console. Many thanks for a very informative email from Christian Weisgerber.
 
@@ -1213,7 +1216,7 @@
   (including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other
   customisation.
 
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.274 2009-04-23 21:09:17 nicm Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.275 2009-04-23 21:28:45 nicm Exp $
 
  LocalWords:  showw utf UTF fulvio ciriaco joshe OSC APC gettime abc DEF OA clr
  LocalWords:  rivo nurges lscm Erdely eol smysession mysession ek dstname RB ms
diff --git a/input.c b/input.c
index 3e18ce86..087a148d 100644
--- a/input.c
+++ b/input.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: input.c,v 1.76 2009-03-28 20:17:29 nicm Exp $ */
+/* $Id: input.c,v 1.77 2009-04-23 21:28:45 nicm Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2007 Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sourceforge.net>
@@ -630,6 +630,10 @@ input_handle_c1_control(u_char ch, struct input_ctx *ictx)
 	log_debug2("-- c1 %zu: %hhu (%c)", ictx->off, ch, ch);
 
 	switch (ch) {
+	case 'E': 	/* NEL */
+		screen_write_carriagereturn(&ictx->ctx);
+		screen_write_linefeed(&ictx->ctx);
+		break;
 	case 'M':	/* RI */
 		screen_write_reverseindex(&ictx->ctx);
 		break;