diff --git a/doc/scsh-manual/sre.tex b/doc/scsh-manual/sre.tex
index 52f4e45..ebe35da 100644
--- a/doc/scsh-manual/sre.tex
+++ b/doc/scsh-manual/sre.tex
@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ set brackets are \ex{("} and \ex{")}.
 \paragraph{Wild card}
 
 Another simple SRE is the symbol \ex{any}, 
-which matches any single character---including newline and \textsc{Ascii} nul.
+which matches any single character---including newline, but excluding
+ASCII NUL.
 
 
 \paragraph{Sequences}