diff --git a/src/ex_cmds.c b/src/ex_cmds.c
index 0ecfda24ea..46671dca0a 100644
--- a/src/ex_cmds.c
+++ b/src/ex_cmds.c
@@ -6374,9 +6374,9 @@ helptags_one(dir, ext, tagfname)
 	for (i = 0; i < ga.ga_len; ++i)
 	{
 	    s = ((char_u **)ga.ga_data)[i];
-	    if (STRNCMP(s, "help-tags", 9) == 0)
+	    if (STRNCMP(s, "help-tags\t", 10) == 0)
 		/* help-tags entry was added in formatted form */
-		fprintf(fd_tags, (char *)s);
+		fputs((char *)s, fd_tags);
 	    else
 	    {
 		fprintf(fd_tags, "%s\t/*", s);
diff --git a/src/testdir/test63.in b/src/testdir/test63.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/src/testdir/test63.ok b/src/testdir/test63.ok
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/src/version.c b/src/version.c
index 61b1a3d63b..f8e40fbbdf 100644
--- a/src/version.c
+++ b/src/version.c
@@ -666,6 +666,8 @@ static char *(features[]) =
 
 static int included_patches[] =
 {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
+/**/
+    39,
 /**/
     38,
 /**/