diff --git a/docs/remote-control.rst b/docs/remote-control.rst
index dc813e933..ecb3fcd53 100644
--- a/docs/remote-control.rst
+++ b/docs/remote-control.rst
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ instance of |kitty| using the :option:`kitty @ --to` command line argument to ``
     kitty @ --to unix:/tmp/mykitty ls
 
 
-Note that is all you want to do is run a single |kitty| "daemon" and have subsequent
+Note that if all you want to do is run a single |kitty| "daemon" and have subsequent
 |kitty| invocations appear as new top-level windows, you can use the simpler :option:`kitty --single-instance`
 option, see ``kitty --help`` for that.
 
diff --git a/kittens/runner.py b/kittens/runner.py
index 1d6b1250b..4363325da 100644
--- a/kittens/runner.py
+++ b/kittens/runner.py
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ def import_kitten_main_module(config_dir, kitten):
         exec(code, g)
         hr = g.get('handle_result', lambda *a, **kw: None)
         return {'start': g['main'], 'end': hr}
-    else:
-        kitten = resolved_kitten(kitten)
-        m = importlib.import_module('kittens.{}.main'.format(kitten))
-        return {'start': m.main, 'end': getattr(m, 'handle_result', lambda *a, **k: None)}
+
+    kitten = resolved_kitten(kitten)
+    m = importlib.import_module('kittens.{}.main'.format(kitten))
+    return {'start': m.main, 'end': getattr(m, 'handle_result', lambda *a, **k: None)}
 
 
 def create_kitten_handler(kitten, orig_args):