diff --git a/arguments.c b/arguments.c
index 829a5ef3..38e50829 100644
--- a/arguments.c
+++ b/arguments.c
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ args_escape(const char *s)
 	char			*escaped, *result;
 	int			 flags;
 
+	if (*s == '\0')
+		return (xstrdup(s));
 	if ((strchr(quoted, s[0]) != NULL || s[0] == '~') && s[1] == '\0') {
 		xasprintf(&escaped, "\\%c", s[0]);
 		return (escaped);
diff --git a/status.c b/status.c
index ce36cc3c..0f96f0d3 100644
--- a/status.c
+++ b/status.c
@@ -348,10 +348,8 @@ status_redraw(struct client *c)
 	/* Resize the target screen. */
 	if (screen_size_x(&sl->screen) != width ||
 	    screen_size_y(&sl->screen) != lines) {
-		if (screen_size_x(&sl->screen) != width)
-			force = 1;
 		screen_resize(&sl->screen, width, lines, 0);
-		changed = 1;
+		changed = force = 1;
 	}
 	screen_write_start(&ctx, NULL, &sl->screen);
 
@@ -865,7 +863,7 @@ status_prompt_paste(struct client *c)
 		if ((pb = paste_get_top(NULL)) == NULL)
 			return (0);
 		bufdata = paste_buffer_data(pb, &bufsize);
-		ud = xreallocarray(NULL, bufsize, sizeof *ud);
+		ud = xreallocarray(NULL, bufsize + 1, sizeof *ud);
 		udp = ud;
 		for (i = 0; i != bufsize; /* nothing */) {
 			more = utf8_open(udp, bufdata[i]);