[PATCH] Regression fix: Make section-from-path=-1 work again

[Julius Plenz]

Hi, John!

* John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> [2013-04-16 19:43]:
> I was hoping you might want to re-roll your patch taking that
> approach... ;-)

I was already wading through that code for some hours, trying to
rebase my twenty or so patches onto the wip branch, which gave me a
lot of merge conflicts... so... :-/

I tested your solution, and it works just as well and is much cleaner,
of course. Thanks!

Julius