diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6872cdc0715a1c95c8aa875fdee4718cce41fe0b..07d6b170474391185ec04b16efc5d118970769d5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2016-01-31  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
 	* src/files.c (has_valid_path): Be more specific in how a given path
 	is invalid.  The change was improved by Rishabh Dave.
+	* doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc: Show ^^ and M-^ as valid key names.
 
 2016-01-29  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
 	* src/files.c (do_insertfile): Do display the buffer when configured
diff --git a/doc/syntax/changelog.nanorc b/doc/syntax/changelog.nanorc
index 2b130d12dda74bd3a7d43b45698d0f4c2c1b9273..7b5e4c18c912689f5a9ac59f0aa8513c2bbdbf97 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/changelog.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/changelog.nanorc
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ color cyan "bug #[0-9]{5,9}" "patch #[0-9]{4,9}"
 # Probable constants, for variety.
 color brightred "\<[A-Z_][0-9A-Z_]+\>"
 # Key sequences.
-color brightblue "\^[A-Z]" "\<M-." "\<F1?[0-9]" "(\^|M-)Space"
+color brightblue "\^[A-Z^\]" "\<M-." "\<F1?[0-9]" "(\^|M-)Space"
 
 # Changed files.
 color magenta start="^(	| {8})\* " end="(:( |$)|^$)"
diff --git a/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc b/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
index 663d3a336c818322d095eb30610482be26a725bc..238416fc3a6945d6d53433696853263274f75dab 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ icolor brightred "^[[:space:]]*((un)?(bind|set)|include|syntax|header|magic|lint
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|autoindent|backup|backwards|boldtext|casesensitive|const(antshow)?|cut|fill|historylog|locking|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nofollow|nohelp|nonewlines|nowrap|pos(ition)?log|preserve|quickblank|quiet|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|suspend|tabsize|tabstospaces|tempfile|unix|view|wordbounds)\>"
 icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(functioncolor|keycolor|statuscolor|titlecolor)[[:space:]]+(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|speller|statuscolor|titlecolor|whitespace)[[:space:]]+"
-icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*bind[[:space:]]+((\^|M-)([[:alpha:]]|space|[]]|[0-9_=+{}|;:'\",./<>\?-])|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(2|with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"
-icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*unbind[[:space:]]+((\^|M-)([[:alpha:]]|space|[]]|[0-9_=+{}|;:'\",./<>\?-])|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(2|with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"
+icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*bind[[:space:]]+((\^|M-)([[:alpha:]]|space|[]]|[0-9^_=+{}|;:'\",./<>\?-])|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(2|with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"
+icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*unbind[[:space:]]+((\^|M-)([[:alpha:]]|space|[]]|[0-9^_=+{}|;:'\",./<>\?-])|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(2|with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*extendsyntax[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+(i?color|header|magic|linter|formatter)[[:space:]]+.*$"
 icolor green "^[[:space:]]*((un)?(bind|set)|include|syntax|header|magic|linter|formatter|extendsyntax)\>"