diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index ce63059..ba458c0 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ termo
 input.  ncurses does a really terrible job at that, mainly wrt. mouse support
 which seems to be utterly broken.  If you can drag things in a terminal
 application, such as in VIM, I can assure you it's not using ncurses for that.
+(At least not with ncurses older than 6.0.)
 
 Since terminal I/O is really complicated and full of special cases, this project
 doesn't aspire to also replace the output part of ncurses, but is rather
diff --git a/termo.c b/termo.c
index 704116b..38caba2 100644
--- a/termo.c
+++ b/termo.c
@@ -1444,7 +1444,7 @@ termo_strfkey (termo_t *tk, char *buffer, size_t len,
 	termo_key_t *key, termo_format_t format)
 {
 	size_t pos = 0;
-	size_t l = 0;
+	int l = 0;
 
 	struct modnames *mods = &modnames[
 		!!(format & TERMO_FORMAT_LONGMOD) +
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ termo_strfkey (termo_t *tk, char *buffer, size_t len,
 		{
 			l = snprintf (buffer + pos, len - pos,
 				wrapbracket ? "<^%c>" : "^%c", (char) codepoint);
-			if(l <= 0)
+			if (l <= 0)
 				return pos;
 			pos += l;
 			return pos;