diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 521a0526..0340bc3e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ bash-completion (2.x)
   * Apply pine completion to alpine too.
   * Remove many unnecessary short option completions where long ones exist.
   * Improve chsh, chgrp, chown, configure, cvs, gkrellm, gzip, lftp, look,
-    make, mdadm, modprobe, mplayer, mysqladmin, perldoc, rsync, screen,
+    make, man, mdadm, modprobe, mplayer, mysqladmin, perldoc, rsync, screen,
     service, scp, ssh, sshfs, update-alternatives, vncviewer, yp-tools, and
     general hostname completions.
   * Add abook and wtf completion, based on work by Raphaël Droz.
diff --git a/contrib/man b/contrib/man
index ead03eb9..9f2e58ec 100644
--- a/contrib/man
+++ b/contrib/man
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ _man()
 {
     local cur i prev sect manpath manext mansect uname
 
-    manext="@([0-9lnp]|[0-9][px]|man|3pm)?(.@(gz|bz2|lzma))"
+    manext="@([0-9lnp]|[0-9][px]|man|3pm)?(.@([gx]z|bz2|lzma))"
     mansect="@([0-9lnp]|[0-9][px]|3pm)"
 
     COMPREPLY=()
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ _man()
     # weed out directory path names and paths to man pages
     COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]##*/?(:)} )
     # strip suffix from man pages
-    COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]%.@(gz|bz2|lzma)} )
+    COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]%.@([gx]z|bz2|lzma)} )
     COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '${COMPREPLY[@]%.*}' -- "${cur//\\\\/}" ) )
 
     if [[ "$prev" != $mansect ]]; then