diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c3a2c66..63f1778 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   - `flush()` and `autoFlush()` related to flushing outputs
   - `pipe` property to check if a sink with input is a pipe (like stdin)
 - Show indexes on cdr list
+- Fix doc command not displaying correct subdocs when using shorthand api doc access (`doc api hilbish.jobs` as an example)
 
 ### Fixed
 - Replaced `sed` in-place editing with `grep` and `mv` for compatibility with BSD utils
diff --git a/nature/commands/doc.lua b/nature/commands/doc.lua
index 15714d8..9653657 100644
--- a/nature/commands/doc.lua
+++ b/nature/commands/doc.lua
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Available sections: ]] .. table.concat(modules, ', ')
 				subdocName = '_index'
 			end
 			f = io.open(moddocPath .. subdocName .. '.md', 'rb')
-			local oldmoddocPath
+			local oldmoddocPath = moddocPath
 			if not f then
 				moddocPath = moddocPath .. subdocName:match '%w+' .. '/'
 				f = io.open(moddocPath .. subdocName .. '.md', 'rb')