diff --git a/runtime/optwin.vim b/runtime/optwin.vim
index 99b1ecf..c8170da 100644
--- a/runtime/optwin.vim
+++ b/runtime/optwin.vim
@@ -749,6 +749,8 @@
 call <SID>BinOptionG("terse", &terse)
 call <SID>AddOption("shortmess", gettext("list of flags to make messages shorter"))
 call <SID>OptionG("shm", &shm)
+call <SID>AddOption("msghistory", gettext("how many messages are remembered"))
+call append("$", " \tset mhi=" . &mhi)
 call <SID>AddOption("showcmd", gettext("show (partial) command keys in location given by 'showcmdloc'"))
 let &sc = s:old_sc
 call <SID>BinOptionG("sc", &sc)