From 171381f0ea9eeca244b12f61fe8133b7d8955033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Arp <357770+welcor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:13:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 5: Redundant null
 check due to previous dereference (#174)

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/improved-edit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/improved-edit.c b/src/improved-edit.c
index 2312297..b549b54 100644
--- a/src/improved-edit.c
+++ b/src/improved-edit.c
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ void parse_edit_action(int command, char *string, struct descriptor_data *d)
         strncat(buf, *d->str, sizeof(buf) - strlen(buf) - 1);
       *s = temp;
       strncat(buf, buf2, sizeof(buf) - strlen(buf) - 1);
-      if (s && *s)
+      if (*s)
         strncat(buf, s, sizeof(buf) - strlen(buf) - 1);
       RECREATE(*d->str, char, strlen(buf) + 3);