diff --git a/etc/etags.1 b/etc/etags.1
index 26a21d4cf4e..adec32f957e 100644
--- a/etc/etags.1
+++ b/etc/etags.1
@@ -158,9 +158,7 @@ It should not match useless characters.  If the match is
 such that more characters than needed are unavoidably matched by
 \fItagregexp\fP, it may be useful to add a \fInameregexp\fP, to
 narrow down the tag scope.  \fBctags\fP ignores regexps without a
-\fInameregexp\fP.  The syntax of regexps is the same as in emacs,
-augmented with intervals of the form \\{m,n\\}, as in \fBed\fP or
-\fBgrep\fP.
+\fInameregexp\fP.  The syntax of regexps is the same as in emacs.
 .br
 Here are some examples.  All the regexps are quoted to protect them
 from shell interpretation.