diff --git a/src/keyboard.c b/src/keyboard.c
index 50e39fdabcf..3c139c68644 100644
--- a/src/keyboard.c
+++ b/src/keyboard.c
@@ -3684,7 +3684,7 @@ Actually, the value is nil only if we can be sure that no input is available.")
 }
 
 DEFUN ("recent-keys", Frecent_keys, Srecent_keys, 0, 0, 0,
-  "Return vector of last 100 chars read from terminal.")
+  "Return vector of last 100 events, not counting those from keyboard macros.")
   ()
 {
   Lisp_Object *keys = XVECTOR (recent_keys)->contents;