diff --git a/runtime/doc/evim.1 b/runtime/doc/evim.1
index bd25ed6..bb859ce 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/evim.1
+++ b/runtime/doc/evim.1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 Editing will be much less efficient.
 .PP
 .B eview
-is the same, but starts in read-only mode.  It works just like evim -R.
+is the same, but starts in read-only mode.  It works just like evim \-R.
 .PP
 See vim(1) for details about Vim, options, etc.
 .PP