diff --git a/lib/rdoc/markup/to_rdoc.rb b/lib/rdoc/markup/to_rdoc.rb
index 255c57e0d1..749635f685 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/markup/to_rdoc.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/markup/to_rdoc.rb
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ def end_accepting
 
   def handle_regexp_SUPPRESSED_CROSSREF(target)
     text = target.text
-    text = text.sub('\\', '') unless in_tt?
+    text = text.gsub('\\', '') unless in_tt?
     text
   end