diff --git a/lib/adapter/question.py b/lib/adapter/question.py
index 99abc8c..c9dc670 100644
--- a/lib/adapter/question.py
+++ b/lib/adapter/question.py
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ class Question(UpstreamAdapter):
             section_name = SO_NAME.get(section_name, section_name)
             topic = "%s/%s" % (section_name, topic)
 
-
         # some clients send queries with - instead of + so we have to rewrite them to
         topic = re.sub(r"(?<!-)-", ' ', topic)
 
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ class Question(UpstreamAdapter):
             topic = [topic]
 
         cmd = [CONFIG["path.internal.bin.upstream"]] + topic
-        proc = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
+        proc = Popen(cmd, stdin=open(os.devnull, "r"), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
         answer = proc.communicate()[0].decode('utf-8')
         return answer
 
diff --git a/lib/fmt/comments.py b/lib/fmt/comments.py
index 855fea9..fab4c7f 100644
--- a/lib/fmt/comments.py
+++ b/lib/fmt/comments.py
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def _run_vim_script(script_lines, text_lines):
 
     cmd = ["script", "-q", "-c",
            "vim -S %s %s" % (script_vim.name, textfile.name)]
-    Popen(cmd, shell=False, stdout=FNULL, stderr=FNULL, env=my_env).communicate()
+    Popen(cmd, shell=False, stdin=FNULL, stdout=FNULL, stderr=FNULL, env=my_env).communicate()
 
     return open(textfile.name, "r").read()