diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index 7593667..fb5ef73 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -1353,8 +1353,8 @@
 	To use the double quote character it must be escaped: "<M-\">".
 	Don't use <Char-xxxx> to get a utf-8 character, use \uxxxx as
 	mentioned above.
-\{xxx}	like \<xxx> but prepends a modifier instead of including it in the
-	character.  E.g. "\<C-w>" is one character 0x17 while "\{C-w}" is four
+\<*xxx>	Like \<xxx> but prepends a modifier instead of including it in the
+	character.  E.g. "\<C-w>" is one character 0x17 while "\<*C-w>" is four
 	bytes: 3 for the CTRL modifier and then character "W".
 
 Note that "\xff" is stored as the byte 255, which may be invalid in some