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diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index 272c5ea1f..49c955da4 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -1789,8 +1789,11 @@ v:progpath Contains the command with which Vim was invoked, including the
|--remote-expr|.
To get the full path use: >
echo exepath(v:progpath)
-< NOTE: This does not work when the command is a relative path
- and the current directory has changed.
+< If the path is relative it will be expanded to the full path,
+ so that it still works after `:cd`. Thus starting "./vim"
+ results in "/home/user/path/to/vim/src/vim".
+ On MS-Windows the executable may be called "vim.exe", but the
+ ".exe" is not added to v:progpath.
Read-only.
*v:register* *register-variable*