1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
index d39e59a8c47..855e20b78b4 100644
--- a/src/fns.c
+++ b/src/fns.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ DEFUN ("append", Fappend, Sappend, 0, MANY, 0,
   "Concatenate all the arguments and make the result a list.\n\
 The result is a list whose elements are the elements of all the arguments.\n\
 Each argument may be a list, vector or string.\n\
-The last argument is not copied if it is a list.")
+The last argument is not copied, just used as the tail of the new list.")
   (nargs, args)
      int nargs;
      Lisp_Object *args;