diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/hudson/markup/EscapedMarkupFormatter/config.properties b/core/src/main/resources/hudson/markup/EscapedMarkupFormatter/config.properties
index 2b13a6c2f20a..0eba945cfea6 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/hudson/markup/EscapedMarkupFormatter/config.properties
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/hudson/markup/EscapedMarkupFormatter/config.properties
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-blurb=Treats all input as plain text. HTML unsafe characters like < and & are escaped to their respective character entities.
+blurb=Shows descriptions mostly as written. \
+  HTML unsafe characters like &lt; and &amp; are escaped to their respective character entities, and line breaks are converted to their HTML equivalent.