diff --git a/src/importer.c b/src/importer.c
index 574ea54a..0d317dfb 100644
--- a/src/importer.c
+++ b/src/importer.c
@@ -121,12 +121,11 @@ const gchar* importer_generate_image (const gchar* filepath, const gchar* captio
     gchar scale_str[16] = { 0 };
     gchar* loc = NULL;
 
-    /* clear previous data */
+    // clear previous data
     result[0] = 0;
 
-    // Filepath notation corrections for Windows systems:
     #ifdef WIN32
-    gchar* path = g_strjoinv("/", g_strsplit(filepath, "\\", -1));
+    // filepath notation correction for win32 systems:
     if (utils_subinstr (" ", filepath, FALSE)) {
         editor_insert_package (g_active_editor, "grffile", "space");
     }
@@ -134,7 +133,7 @@ const gchar* importer_generate_image (const gchar* filepath, const gchar* captio
 
     snprintf (scale_str, 16, "%.2f", scale);
 
-    /* some locales use ',' as seperator, replace them as '.' */
+    // some locales use ',' as seperator, replace them as '.'
     if ( (loc = strstr (scale_str, ",")))
         *loc = '.';
 
diff --git a/src/motion.c b/src/motion.c
index 5e93b584..4dca5c7b 100644
--- a/src/motion.c
+++ b/src/motion.c
@@ -104,13 +104,12 @@ void motion_resume_compile_thread (GuMotion* m) {
 
 void motion_kill_typesetter (GuMotion* m) {
     if (*m->typesetter_pid) {
-        gchar* command = NULL;
         /* Kill children spawned by typesetter command/script, don't know
          * how to do this programatically yet(glib doesn't not provides any
          * function for killing a process), so use pkill for now. For
          * win32 there's currently nothing we can do about it. */
 #ifndef WIN32
-        command = g_strdup_printf("pkill -15 -P %d", *m->typesetter_pid);
+        gchar* command = g_strdup_printf("pkill -15 -P %d", *m->typesetter_pid);
         system(command);
         g_free(command);