diff --git a/libs/arg.c b/libs/arg.c
index 84e9072..c24f3ed 100644
--- a/libs/arg.c
+++ b/libs/arg.c
@@ -362,20 +362,20 @@ savehistory(char *input)
 
 	fp = fopen(histfile, "w");
 	if (!fp) {
-		die("failed to open %s", histfile);
+		die("spmenu: failed to open %s", histfile);
 	}
 	for (i = histsz < maxhist ? 0 : histsz - maxhist; i < histsz; i++) {
 		if (0 >= fprintf(fp, "%s\n", history[i])) {
-			die("failed to write to %s", histfile);
+			die("spmenu: failed to write to %s", histfile);
 		}
 	}
 	if (histsz == 0 || histdup || (histsz > 0 && strcmp(input, history[histsz-1]) != 0)) {
 		if (0 >= fputs(input, fp)) {
-			die("failed to write to %s", histfile);
+			die("spmenu: failed to write to %s", histfile);
 		}
 	}
 	if (fclose(fp)) {
-		die("failed to close file %s", histfile);
+		die("spmenu: failed to close file %s", histfile);
 	}
 
 out:
diff --git a/libs/match.c b/libs/match.c
index d5673df..192fe8b 100644
--- a/libs/match.c
+++ b/libs/match.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ fuzzymatch(void)
 	if (number_of_matches) {
 		// initialize array with matches
 		if (!(fuzzymatches = realloc(fuzzymatches, number_of_matches * sizeof(struct item*))))
-			die("cannot realloc %u bytes:", number_of_matches * sizeof(struct item*));
+			die("spmenu: cannot realloc %u bytes:", number_of_matches * sizeof(struct item*));
 		for (i = 0, it = matches; it && i < number_of_matches; i++, it = it->right) {
 			fuzzymatches[i] = it;
 		}
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ match(void)
 	// separate input text into tokens to be matched individually
 	for (s = strtok(buf, " "); s; tokv[tokc - 1] = s, s = strtok(NULL, " "))
 		if (++tokc > tokn && !(tokv = realloc(tokv, ++tokn * sizeof *tokv)))
-			die("cannot realloc %u bytes:", tokn * sizeof *tokv);
+			die("spmenu: cannot realloc %u bytes:", tokn * sizeof *tokv);
 	len = tokc ? strlen(tokv[0]) : 0;
 
     matches = lhpprefix = lprefix = lsubstr = matchend = hpprefixend = prefixend = substrend = NULL;
diff --git a/libs/sort.c b/libs/sort.c
index 128309d..0f96671 100644
--- a/libs/sort.c
+++ b/libs/sort.c
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ tokenize(char *source, const char *delim, int *llen)
 	while (token) {
 		if (listlength + 1 >= list_size) {
 			if (!(list = realloc(list, (list_size += 8) * sizeof(*list))))
-				die("Unable to realloc %zu bytes\n", list_size * sizeof(*list));
+				die("spmenu: unable to realloc %zu bytes\n", list_size * sizeof(*list));
 		}
 		if (!(list[listlength] = strdup(token)))
-			die("Unable to strdup %zu bytes\n", strlen(token) + 1);
+			die("spmenu: unable to strdup %zu bytes\n", strlen(token) + 1);
 		token = strtok(NULL, delim);
 		listlength++;
 	}
diff --git a/libs/stream.c b/libs/stream.c
index dfcb7c3..c114908 100644
--- a/libs/stream.c
+++ b/libs/stream.c
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ readstdin(void)
       	if (i + 1 >= itemsiz) {
 			itemsiz += 256;
 			if (!(items = realloc(items, itemsiz * sizeof(*items))))
-				die("cannot realloc %zu bytes:", itemsiz * sizeof(*items));
+				die("spmenu: cannot realloc %zu bytes:", itemsiz * sizeof(*items));
 		}
 		if ((p = strchr(buf, '\n')))
 			*p = '\0';
 		if (!(items[i].text = strdup(buf)))
-			die("cannot strdup %u bytes:", strlen(buf) + 1);
+			die("spmenu: cannot strdup %u bytes:", strlen(buf) + 1);
         items[i].hp = arrayhas(hpitems, hplength, items[i].text);
 		drw_font_getexts(drw->font, buf, strlen(buf), &tmpmax, NULL, True);
 		if (tmpmax > inputw) {
@@ -80,12 +80,14 @@ readstdin(void)
 
             // spmenu:version
             if (!strncmp("version", items[i].ex, strlen("version"))) {
-                die("spmenu version %s", VERSION);
+                fprintf(stdout, "spmenu version %s", VERSION);
+                exit(0);
             }
 
             // spmenu:license
             if (!strncmp("license", items[i].ex, strlen("license"))) {
-                die("spmenu is licensed under the MIT license. See the included LICENSE file for more information.");
+                fprintf(stdout, "spmenu is licensed under the MIT license. See the included LICENSE file for more information.");
+                exit(0);
             }
 
             // spmenu:test