diff --git a/extra/fuel/help/help.factor b/extra/fuel/help/help.factor
index e70327bd35..55183734b3 100644
--- a/extra/fuel/help/help.factor
+++ b/extra/fuel/help/help.factor
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 
 USING: accessors arrays assocs combinators help help.crossref
-help.markup help.topics io io.streams.string kernel make memoize
-namespaces parser prettyprint sequences summary tools.vocabs
-tools.vocabs.browser vocabs vocabs.loader words ;
+help.markup help.topics io io.streams.string kernel make namespaces
+parser prettyprint sequences summary tools.vocabs tools.vocabs.browser
+vocabs vocabs.loader words ;
 
 IN: fuel.help
 
 <PRIVATE
 
-MEMO: fuel-find-word ( name -- word/f )
+: fuel-find-word ( name -- word/f )
     [ [ name>> ] dip = ] curry all-words swap filter
     dup empty? not [ first ] [ drop f ] if ;
 
@@ -102,11 +102,11 @@ PRIVATE>
 : (fuel-vocab-help) ( name -- str )
     dup empty? [ fuel-vocab-children-help ] [ (fuel-vocab-element) ] if ;
 
-MEMO: (fuel-get-vocabs/author) ( author -- element )
+: (fuel-get-vocabs/author) ( author -- element )
     [ "Vocabularies by " prepend \ $heading swap 2array ]
     [ authored fuel-vocab-list ] bi 2array ;
 
-MEMO: (fuel-get-vocabs/tag) ( tag -- element )
+: (fuel-get-vocabs/tag) ( tag -- element )
     [ "Vocabularies tagged " prepend \ $heading swap 2array ]
     [ tagged fuel-vocab-list ] bi 2array ;
 
diff --git a/misc/fuel/fuel-markup.el b/misc/fuel/fuel-markup.el
index 7a8fa0c234..2784335fbb 100644
--- a/misc/fuel/fuel-markup.el
+++ b/misc/fuel/fuel-markup.el
@@ -585,12 +585,13 @@
 
 (defun fuel-markup--see (e)
   (let* ((word (nth 1 e))
-         (cmd (and word `(:fuel* (,(format "%s" word) fuel-word-see) "fuel" t)))
-         (res (and cmd
-                   (fuel-eval--retort-result (fuel-eval--send/wait cmd 100)))))
+         (cmd (and word `(:fuel* ((:quote ,(format "%S" word)) see) "fuel")))
+         (ret (and cmd (fuel-eval--send/wait cmd)))
+         (res (and (not (fuel-eval--retort-error ret))
+                   (fuel-eval--retort-output ret))))
     (if res
         (fuel-markup--code (list '$code res))
-      (fuel-markup--snippet (list '$snippet word)))))
+      (fuel-markup--snippet (list '$snippet " " word)))))
 
 (defun fuel-markup--null (e))