diff --git a/doc/fixes36.3 b/doc/fixes36.3
index 8677345fb..58e792bad 100644
--- a/doc/fixes36.3
+++ b/doc/fixes36.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.104 $ $NHDT-Date: 1567213888 2019/08/31 01:11:28 $
+$NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.106 $ $NHDT-Date: 1567273590 2019/08/31 17:46:30 $
 
 This fixes36.3 file is here to capture information about updates in the 3.6.x
 lineage following the release of 3.6.2 in May 2019. Please note, however,
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ when a shape-shifted sandestin was turned to stone, it died and reverted to
 	instead of dying, make it revert to sandestin form with full health
 toggling perm_invent (where supported) while swallowed or underwater didn't
 	necessarily update the persistent inventory window right away
+have 'O' update persistent inventory window if 'implicit_uncursed',
+	'menucolors', or 'guicolors' (curses) is toggled or if menucolors is
+	On and any menu color patterns are added or removed
+'O's "set <option> to what?" could be used to force a buffer overflow
+'O's response to bad 'statuslines' value said "must be 2 and 3" (at one point
+	it was "must be between 2 and 3", change it to "must be 2 or 3")
 
 
 Fixes to Post-3.6.2 Problems that Were Exposed Via git Repository
@@ -149,6 +155,10 @@ curses: sometimes the message window would show a blank line after a prompt
 curses: the change to show map in columns 1..79 instead of 2..80 made the
 	highlight for '@' show up in the wrong place if clipped map had been
 	panned horizontally
+curses+'perm_invent': menu coloring patterns which match ordinary inventory
+	menu might fail to match persistent inventory window because leading
+	article and space ("a ", "an ", "the ") is stripped off for brevity;
+	perform the pattern matching tests before stripping doname() prefix
 tty: revert the attempt to fix "message line anomaly: if autodecribe feedback
 	wrapped to second line, the wrapped portion wasn't erased when a
 	shorter line was shown or getpos was dismissed" because it disrupted
@@ -162,6 +172,9 @@ EDIT_GETLIN: wizard mode 'monpolycontrol' was using the getlin() answer buffer
 	what kind of monster?" prompt, resulting in "<x,y>" as default answer
 EDIT_GETLIN: when naming an object or a monster use the existing name, if
 	there is one, as the default answer
+EDIT_GETLIN: using 'O' to set message types or menu colors was overloading the
+	answer buffer with other stuff, resulting in bogus default response
+	during repeat prompting
 curses: very tall menus tried to use selector characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9,
 	but 0-9 should be reserved for counts and if the display was tall
 	enough for more than 62 entries, arbitrary ASCII punctuation got used
@@ -219,6 +232,8 @@ curses+'perm_invent': don't highlight inventory letters since nothing is
 curses+'perm_invent': could crash during restore if game was saved while
 	hero was swallowed (invalid u.ustuck pointer; suppressing attempts to
 	update persistent inventory window during restore hides the problem)
+curses+'perm_invent': menu coloring required that both 'menucolors' and
+	'guicolor' be On; override guicolor with more-specific menucolors
 curses+'popup_dialog': show the text cursor at the end of prompts for single
 	character input
 curses+DUMPLOG: pass along old messages from save file and quest message
diff --git a/src/options.c b/src/options.c
index 08e7c2617..4ed8e46e3 100644
--- a/src/options.c
+++ b/src/options.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	options.c	$NHDT-Date: 1561682566 2019/06/28 00:42:46 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.367 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	options.c	$NHDT-Date: 1567240693 2019/08/31 08:38:13 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.369 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /*-Copyright (c) Michael Allison, 2008. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
@@ -3681,7 +3681,7 @@ boolean tinitial, tfrom_file;
             itmp = atoi(op);
         }
         if (itmp < 2 || itmp > 3) {
-            config_error_add("'%s' requires a value of 2 and 3", fullname);
+            config_error_add("'%s' requires a value of 2 or 3", fullname);
             retval = FALSE;
         } else {
             iflags.wc2_statuslines = itmp;
@@ -4010,11 +4010,11 @@ boolean tinitial, tfrom_file;
                     status_initialize(REASSESS_ONLY);
                 g.context.botl = TRUE;
             } else if (boolopt[i].addr == &flags.invlet_constant
-                       || boolopt[i].addr == &flags.sortpack) {
+                       || boolopt[i].addr == &flags.sortpack
+                       || boolopt[i].addr == &iflags.implicit_uncursed) {
                 if (!flags.invlet_constant)
                     reassign();
-                if (iflags.perm_invent)
-                    update_inventory();
+                update_inventory();
             } else if (boolopt[i].addr == &flags.lit_corridor
                        || boolopt[i].addr == &flags.dark_room) {
                 /*
@@ -4065,6 +4065,9 @@ boolean tinitial, tfrom_file;
                         set_colors();
                 }
 #endif
+            } else if (boolopt[i].addr == &iflags.use_menu_color
+                       || boolopt[i].addr == &iflags.wc2_guicolor) {
+                update_inventory();
 #endif /* TEXTCOLOR */
             }
             return retval;
@@ -4381,7 +4384,7 @@ int
 doset() /* changing options via menu by Per Liboriussen */
 {
     static boolean made_fmtstr = FALSE;
-    char buf[BUFSZ], buf2[BUFSZ] = DUMMY;
+    char buf[BUFSZ];
     const char *name;
     int i = 0, pass, boolcount, pick_cnt, pick_idx, opt_indx;
     boolean *bool_p;
@@ -4556,11 +4559,16 @@ doset() /* changing options via menu by Per Liboriussen */
 
                 if (!special_handling(compopt[opt_indx].name, setinitial,
                                       fromfile)) {
+                    char abuf[BUFSZ];
+
                     Sprintf(buf, "Set %s to what?", compopt[opt_indx].name);
-                    getlin(buf, buf2);
-                    if (buf2[0] == '\033')
+                    abuf[0] = '\0';
+                    getlin(buf, abuf);
+                    if (abuf[0] == '\033')
                         continue;
-                    Sprintf(buf, "%s:%s", compopt[opt_indx].name, buf2);
+                    Sprintf(buf, "%s:", compopt[opt_indx].name);
+                    (void) strncat(eos(buf), abuf,
+                                   (sizeof buf - 1 - strlen(buf)));
                     /* pass the buck */
                     (void) parseoptions(buf, setinitial, fromfile);
                 }
@@ -5061,7 +5069,7 @@ boolean setinitial, setfromfile;
             iflags.menu_headings = mhattr;
     } else if (!strcmp("msgtype", optname)) {
         int opt_idx, nmt, mttyp;
-        char mtbuf[BUFSZ] = DUMMY;
+        char mtbuf[BUFSZ];
 
  msgtypes_again:
         nmt = msgtype_count();
@@ -5069,6 +5077,7 @@ boolean setinitial, setfromfile;
         if (opt_idx == 3) { /* done */
             return TRUE;
         } else if (opt_idx == 0) { /* add new */
+            mtbuf[0] = '\0';
             getlin("What new message pattern?", mtbuf);
             if (*mtbuf == '\033')
                 return TRUE;
@@ -5123,18 +5132,29 @@ boolean setinitial, setfromfile;
         }
     } else if (!strcmp("menu_colors", optname)) {
         int opt_idx, nmc, mcclr, mcattr;
-        char mcbuf[BUFSZ] = DUMMY;
+        char mcbuf[BUFSZ];
 
  menucolors_again:
         nmc = count_menucolors();
         opt_idx = handle_add_list_remove("menucolor", nmc);
         if (opt_idx == 3) { /* done */
  menucolors_done:
-            if (nmc > 0 && !iflags.use_menu_color)
+            /* in case we've made a change which impacts current persistent
+               inventory window; we don't track whether an actual changed
+               occurred, so just assume there was one and that it matters;
+               if we're wrong, a redundant update is cheap... */
+            if (iflags.use_menu_color)
+                update_inventory();
+
+            /* menu colors aren't being used; if any are defined, remind
+               player how to use them */
+            else if (nmc > 0)
                 pline(
     "To have menu colors become active, toggle 'menucolors' option to True.");
             return TRUE;
+
         } else if (opt_idx == 0) { /* add new */
+            mcbuf[0] = '\0';
             getlin("What new menucolor pattern?", mcbuf);
             if (*mcbuf == '\033')
                 goto menucolors_done;
@@ -5147,6 +5167,7 @@ boolean setinitial, setfromfile;
                 wait_synch();
             }
             goto menucolors_again;
+
         } else { /* list (1) or remove (2) */
             int pick_idx, pick_cnt;
             int mc_idx;
diff --git a/win/curses/cursinvt.c b/win/curses/cursinvt.c
index 6cb8cd67c..59b473fcb 100644
--- a/win/curses/cursinvt.c
+++ b/win/curses/cursinvt.c
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ curses_add_inv(int y,
                CHAR_P accelerator, attr_t attr, const char *str)
 {
     WINDOW *win = curses_get_nhwin(INV_WIN);
+    boolean save_guicolor;
     int color = NO_COLOR;
-    int x = 0, width, height, available_width,
+    int x = 0, width, height, available_width, stroffset = 0,
         border = curses_window_has_border(INV_WIN) ? 1 : 0;
 
     /* Figure out where to draw the line */
@@ -101,19 +102,22 @@ curses_add_inv(int y,
            persistent inventory window so don't highlight inventory letters */
         wprintw(win, "%c) ", accelerator);
 #endif
-        available_width -= 3;
+        available_width -= 3; /* letter+parenthesis+space */
 
         /* narrow the entries to fit more of the interesting text; do so
            unconditionally rather than trying to figure whether it's needed;
            when 'sortpack' is enabled we could also strip out "<class> of"
            from "<prefix><class> of <item><suffix> but if that's to be done,
-           core ought to do it */
+           core ought to do it;
+           'stroffset': defer skipping the article prefix until after menu
+           color pattern matching has taken place so that the persistent
+           inventory window always gets same coloring as regular inventory */
         if (!strncmpi(str, "a ", 2))
-            str += 2;
+            stroffset = 2;
         else if (!strncmpi(str, "an ", 3))
-            str += 3;
+            stroffset = 3;
         else if (!strncmpi(str, "the ", 4))
-            str +=4;
+            stroffset = 4;
     }
 #if 0 /* FIXME: MENU GLYPHS */
     if (accelerator && glyph != NO_GLYPH && iflags.use_menu_glyphs) {
@@ -138,10 +142,16 @@ curses_add_inv(int y,
     }
     if (color == NO_COLOR)
         color = NONE;
+    /* curses_toggle_color_attr() uses 'guicolor' to decide whether to
+       honor specified color, but persistent inventory window has its own
+       more-specific control, 'menucolors', so override with that here */
+    save_guicolor = iflags.wc2_guicolor;
+    iflags.wc2_guicolor = iflags.use_menu_color;
     curses_toggle_color_attr(win, color, attr, ON);
     /* wattron(win, attr); */
-    wprintw(win, "%.*s", available_width, str);
+    wprintw(win, "%.*s", available_width, str + stroffset);
     /* wattroff(win, attr); */
     curses_toggle_color_attr(win, color, attr, OFF);
+    iflags.wc2_guicolor = save_guicolor;
     wclrtoeol(win);
 }