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diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index 87240831a2..9430d4ab58 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -8290,6 +8290,10 @@ shellescape({string} [, {special}]) *shellescape()*
- The <NL> character is escaped (twice if {special} is
a ||non-zero-arg|).
+ If 'shell' contains "fish" in the tail, the "\" character will
+ be escaped because in fish it is used as an escape character
+ inside single quotes.
+
Example of use with a |:!| command: >
:exe '!dir ' . shellescape(expand('<cfile>'), 1)
< This results in a directory listing for the file under the