diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 80349ed2..093c4cff 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -558,6 +558,8 @@ Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de>
  items at the beginning of the menu
  for a patch that was used to implement stopping scanning the video directory if
  there are too many levels of symbolic links
+ for reporting that an attempt to call a plugin's main menu function while a
+ message is being displayed didn't work
 
 Jeremy Hall <jhall@UU.NET>
  for fixing an incomplete initialization of the filter parameters in eit.c
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 58837cf2..8bbeb66a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4438,3 +4438,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Timer log messages now show "VPS" if this is a VPS timer.
 - Fixed getting the present EPG event in case none is currently 'running' (it
   then returns the one that just ended).
+- Fixed calling a plugin's main menu function while a message is being displayed
+  (reported by Helmut Auer).
diff --git a/interface.c b/interface.c
index 4b74db95..59147f4b 100644
--- a/interface.c
+++ b/interface.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: interface.c 1.73 2006/01/29 12:35:50 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: interface.c 1.74 2006/03/25 11:50:55 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "interface.h"
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ eKeys cInterface::Wait(int Seconds, bool KeepChar)
       if (ISRAWKEY(Key) || time(NULL) > timeout || interrupted)
          break;
       }
-  if (KeepChar && ISRAWKEY(Key))
+  if (KeepChar && ISRAWKEY(Key) || Key == k_Plugin)
      cRemote::Put(Key);
   interrupted = false;
   return Key;