diff --git a/lisp/thingatpt.el b/lisp/thingatpt.el
index 167f0657248c58a4e4e74ccac4bbbf98a365b89d..6e2c4e4317b272057a646ed9921f24a49d7410c9 100644
--- a/lisp/thingatpt.el
+++ b/lisp/thingatpt.el
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ a symbol as a valid THING."
 
 (defvar thing-at-point-url-path-regexp
   "[^]\t\n \"'()<>[^`{}]*[^]\t\n \"'()<>[^`{}.,;]+"
-  "A regular expression probably matching the host, path or e-mail part of a URL.")
+  "A regular expression probably matching the host and filename or e-mail part of a URL.")
 
 (defvar thing-at-point-short-url-regexp
   (concat "[-A-Za-z0-9.]+" thing-at-point-url-path-regexp)