diff --git a/doc/nanorc.sample b/doc/nanorc.sample
index 61396b3171c5d0003a95dbe952f804c69979fc63..f015685fdb25e18080ee8f7e53adb300b3652b45 100644
--- a/doc/nanorc.sample
+++ b/doc/nanorc.sample
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 ##
 # color brightyellow "<[^= 	]*>" ""(\\.|[^\"])*""
 ##
-## This string is VERY resource intensive!!!
+## This string is VERY resource intensive!
 # color brightyellow start=""(\\.|[^\"])*\\[[:space:]]*$" end="^(\\.|[^\"])*""
 ##
 ## And we want to have some nice comment highlighting too