diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cf931937bdd3a2ff890917502ca6441b80fefe63..746b13b529b91ba4356ec0c1532db3660bfdf8ac 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2009-12-02 Jordi Mallach <jordi@gnu.org>
+	* doc/man/nano.1: Fix escaping of hyphens for the -$ option.
+
 2009-12-01 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
 	* chars.c, file.c - Better handle unused results for things like mbtowc(), new
 	  macro IGNORE_CALL_RESULT.
diff --git a/doc/man/nano.1 b/doc/man/nano.1
index a3acc3d60fb6cff88a2968e4970ea49e1e407fb6..adab0c456e2d7d30c62c5066d5ccb74a36e57326 100644
--- a/doc/man/nano.1
+++ b/doc/man/nano.1
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ Enable suspend ability.
 Enable 'soft wrapping'.  \fBnano\fP will attempt to display the entire
 contents of a line, even if it is longer than the screen width.  Since
 '$' normally refers to a variable in the Unix shell, you should specify
-this option last when using other options (e.g. 'nano -wS$') or pass it
-separately (e.g. 'nano -wS -$').
+this option last when using other options (e.g. 'nano \-wS$') or pass it
+separately (e.g. 'nano \-wS \-$').
 .TP
 .B \-a, \-b, \-e, \-f, \-g, \-j
 Ignored, for compatibility with Pico.