diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_describe_command.fish b/share/functions/__fish_describe_command.fish
index afbd57f97..27f3af3bd 100644
--- a/share/functions/__fish_describe_command.fish
+++ b/share/functions/__fish_describe_command.fish
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ function __fish_describe_command -d "Command used to find descriptions for comma
 		for (name in names)
 			if (names[name] ~ /^'"$argv"'.* *\([18]\)/ ) {
 				sub( "( |\t)*\\\([18]\\\)", "", names[name] );
+				sub( " \\\[.*\\\]", "", names[name] );
 				print names[name] "\t" $2;
 			}
 	}'