diff --git a/doc/man/etags.1 b/doc/man/etags.1
index 45d2541ec13..558b249f31b 100644
--- a/doc/man/etags.1
+++ b/doc/man/etags.1
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ May be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.
 \fBetags\fP will read from standard input and mark the produced tags
 as belonging to the file \fBFILE\fP.
 .TP
-\fB \-Q, \-\-class\-qualify\fP
+\fB\-Q, \-\-class\-qualify\fP
 Qualify tag names with their class name in C++, ObjC, Java, and Perl.
 This produces tag names of the form \fIclass\fP\fB::\fP\fImember\fP
 for C++ and Perl,