diff --git a/doc/startify.txt b/doc/startify.txt
index 445bad2..5c3e758 100644
--- a/doc/startify.txt
+++ b/doc/startify.txt
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ At the moment only git, hg, bzr and svn are supported.
 >
     let g:startify_skiplist = [
         \ 'COMMIT_EDITMSG',
-        \ escape(fnamemodify($VIMRUNTIME, ':p'), '\') .'doc',
+        \ escape(fnamemodify(resolve($VIMRUNTIME), ':p'), '\') .'doc',
         \ 'bundle/.*/doc',
         \ ]
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