diff --git a/doc/nano.1 b/doc/nano.1
index 155dbb4f..44f55406 100644
--- a/doc/nano.1
+++ b/doc/nano.1
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Show a summary of the available command-line options and exit.
 Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation.  Useful when
 editing source code.
 .TP
-.BR \-k ", " \-\-cut
+.BR \-k ", " \-\-cutfromcursor
 Make the 'Cut Text' command (normally \fB^K\fR) cut from the current cursor
 position to the end of the line, instead of cutting the entire line.
 .TP
diff --git a/doc/nano.texi b/doc/nano.texi
index 75dd58df..48e453f9 100644
--- a/doc/nano.texi
+++ b/doc/nano.texi
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Automatically indent new lines to the same number of spaces and tabs as
 the previous line.
 
 @item -k
-@itemx --cut
+@itemx --cutfromcursor
 Make the 'Cut Text' command (normally @kbd{^K}) cut from the current cursor
 position to the end of the line, instead of cutting the entire line.
 
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ The following global toggles are available:
 @kbd{Meta-I} toggles the @option{-i} (@option{--autoindent}) command-line option.
 
 @item Cut From Cursor To End-of-Line toggle
-@kbd{Meta-K} toggles the @option{-k} (@option{--cut}) command-line option.
+@kbd{Meta-K} toggles the @option{-k} (@option{--cutfromcursor}) command-line option.
 
 @item Long-Line Wrapping toggle
 @kbd{Meta-L} toggles the @option{-w} (@option{--nowrap}) command-line option.
@@ -726,8 +726,9 @@ Constantly display the cursor position on the status bar.
 (The old form of this option, @code{set const}, is deprecated.)
 Note that this overrides @option{quickblank}.
 
-@item set cut
-Use cut-to-end-of-line by default, instead of cutting the whole line.
+@item set cutfromcursor
+Use cut-from-cursor-to-end-of-line by default, instead of cutting the whole line.
+(The old form of this option, @code{set cut}, is deprecated.)
 
 @item set fill @var{number}
 Hard-wrap lines at column number @var{number}.  If @var{number} is 0 or less,
diff --git a/doc/nanorc.5 b/doc/nanorc.5
index 88958928..14818f94 100644
--- a/doc/nanorc.5
+++ b/doc/nanorc.5
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar.
 (The old form of this option, '\fBset const\fR', is deprecated.)
 This overrides the option \fBquickblank\fR.
 .TP
-.B set cut
-Use cut-to-end-of-line by default, instead of cutting the whole line.
+.B set cutfromcursor
+Use cut-from-cursor-to-end-of-line by default, instead of cutting the whole line.
+(The old form of this option, '\fBset cut\fR', is deprecated.)
 .TP
 .B set fill \fInumber\fR
 Hard-wrap lines at column number \fInumber\fR.  If \fInumber\fR is 0 or less,
diff --git a/doc/sample.nanorc.in b/doc/sample.nanorc.in
index fc66a1d4..e41c6f71 100644
--- a/doc/sample.nanorc.in
+++ b/doc/sample.nanorc.in
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@
 # set constantshow
 ## (The old form, 'const', is deprecated.)
 
-## Use cut-to-end-of-line by default.
-# set cut
+## Use cut-from-cursor-to-end-of-line by default.
+# set cutfromcursor
+## (The old form, 'cut', is deprecated.)
 
 ## Set the line length for wrapping text and justifying paragraphs.
 ## If the value is 0 or less, the wrapping point will be the screen
diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
index ac2e56bf..303ab5a4 100644
--- a/src/nano.c
+++ b/src/nano.c
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ void usage(void)
     print_opt("-h", "--help", N_("Show this help text and exit"));
 #ifndef NANO_TINY
     print_opt("-i", "--autoindent", N_("Automatically indent new lines"));
-    print_opt("-k", "--cut", N_("Cut from cursor to end of line"));
+    print_opt("-k", "--cutfromcursor", N_("Cut from cursor to end of line"));
 #endif
 #ifdef ENABLE_LINENUMBERS
     print_opt("-l", "--linenumbers", N_("Show line numbers in front of the text"));
@@ -1977,7 +1977,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	{"wordchars", 1, NULL, 'X'},
 	{"atblanks", 0, NULL, 'a'},
 	{"autoindent", 0, NULL, 'i'},
-	{"cut", 0, NULL, 'k'},
+	{"cutfromcursor", 0, NULL, 'k'},
 	{"unix", 0, NULL, 'u'},
 	{"softwrap", 0, NULL, '$'},
 #endif
diff --git a/src/rcfile.c b/src/rcfile.c
index 8505e0c7..70e3e6a5 100644
--- a/src/rcfile.c
+++ b/src/rcfile.c
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static const rcoption rcopts[] = {
     {"backupdir", 0},
     {"backwards", BACKWARDS_SEARCH},
     {"casesensitive", CASE_SENSITIVE},
-    {"cut", CUT_TO_END},
+    {"cut", CUT_TO_END},  /* deprecated form, remove in 2020 */
+    {"cutfromcursor", CUT_TO_END},
     {"justifytrim", JUSTIFY_TRIM},
     {"locking", LOCKING},
     {"matchbrackets", 0},
diff --git a/syntax/nanorc.nanorc b/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
index 1bdb13bd..ac1fa4ce 100644
--- a/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
+++ b/syntax/nanorc.nanorc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ comment "#"
 icolor brightred "^[[:space:]]*((un)?(bind|set)|include|syntax|header|magic|comment|linter|formatter|i?color|extendsyntax).*$"
 
 # Keywords
-icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|atblanks|autoindent|backup|backwards|boldtext|casesensitive|constantshow|cut|fill[[:space:]]+-?[[:digit:]]+|historylog|justifytrim|linenumbers|locking|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nohelp|nopauses|nonewlines|nowrap|positionlog|preserve|quickblank|quiet|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|showcursor|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|suspend|tabsize[[:space:]]+[1-9][0-9]*|tabstospaces|tempfile|unix|view|wordbounds)\>"
+icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*(set|unset)[[:space:]]+(allow_insecure_backup|atblanks|autoindent|backup|backwards|boldtext|casesensitive|constantshow|cutfromcursor|fill[[:space:]]+-?[[:digit:]]+|historylog|justifytrim|linenumbers|locking|morespace|mouse|multibuffer|noconvert|nohelp|nopauses|nonewlines|nowrap|positionlog|preserve|quickblank|quiet|rebinddelete|rebindkeypad|regexp|showcursor|smarthome|smooth|softwrap|suspend|tabsize[[:space:]]+[1-9][0-9]*|tabstospaces|tempfile|unix|view|wordbounds)\>"
 icolor yellow "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+((function|key|number|status|title)color)[[:space:]]+(bright)?(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan)?(,(white|black|red|blue|green|yellow|magenta|cyan))?\>"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]+(backupdir|brackets|functioncolor|keycolor|matchbrackets|numbercolor|operatingdir|punct|quotestr|speller|statuscolor|titlecolor|whitespace|wordchars)[[:space:]]+"
 icolor brightgreen "^[[:space:]]*bind[[:space:]]+((\^([[:alpha:]]|[]0-9\^_]|Space)|M-([[:alpha:]]|[]!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9:;<=>?@\^_`{|}~-]|Space))|F([1-9]|1[0-6])|Ins|Del)[[:space:]]+[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+(all|main|search|replace(with)?|gotoline|writeout|insert|ext(ernal)?cmd|help|spell|linter|browser|whereisfile|gotodir)([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)"