diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b9fb6eaa..4b7f900f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 	remove option '-?', and make some other tweaks.
 	* doc/man/{nano.1,nanorc.5}, doc/texinfo/nano.texi: Synchronize the
 	documentation, and tweak some wording here and there.
+	* doc/syntax/texinfo.nanorc: Stop the brace content from spilling.
 
 2014-05-05  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
 	* doc/man/nanorc.5: Give syntax highlighting its own section,
diff --git a/doc/syntax/texinfo.nanorc b/doc/syntax/texinfo.nanorc
index a96dde81..ca62aacb 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/texinfo.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/texinfo.nanorc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ magic "Texinfo source text"
 
 # Command arguments, trailing and enclosed.
 color cyan "^@[a-z]+[[:space:]]+.*$"
-color brightmagenta "@[a-z]+\{.*\}"
+color brightmagenta "@[a-z]+\{[^}]*\}"
 # Commands themselves.
 color yellow "@[a-z]+\{?" "\}"