remove -E,--escape-coding
diff --git a/doc/html/documentation.html b/doc/html/documentation.html
index 45e6682..1542541 100644
--- a/doc/html/documentation.html
+++ b/doc/html/documentation.html
@@ -641,14 +641,6 @@
 		</TR>
 		<TR>
 			<TD NOWRAP ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP" BGCOLOR="#F4F4CC">
-				<TT>-E</TT>, <TT>--escape-coding</TT>
-			</TD>
-			<TD>
-				Do escape coding in the entropy coder.  This causes the encoder to use an unencoded representation of the residual in a partition if it is smaller.  It increases the runtime and usually results in an improvement of less than 1%.
-			</TD>
-		</TR>
-		<TR>
-			<TD NOWRAP ALIGN="RIGHT" VALIGN="TOP" BGCOLOR="#F4F4CC">
 				<TT>-l #</TT>, <TT>--max-lpc-order=#</TT>
 			</TD>
 			<TD>
diff --git a/man/flac.sgml b/man/flac.sgml
index 9aa1660..00de8cb 100644
--- a/man/flac.sgml
+++ b/man/flac.sgml
@@ -501,18 +501,6 @@
 	      </varlistentry>
 
 	      <varlistentry>
-		<term><option>-E</option>, <option>--escape-coding</option></term>
-
-		<listitem>
-		  <para>Do escape coding in the entropy coder.  This
-		    causes the encoder to use an unencoded representation
-		    of the residual in a partition if it is smaller.  It
-		    increases the runtime and usually results in an
-		    improvement of less than 1%.</para>
-		</listitem>
-	      </varlistentry>
-
-	      <varlistentry>
 		<term><option>-l</option> <replaceable>#</replaceable>, <option>--max-lpc-order</option>=<replaceable>#</replaceable></term>
 
 		<listitem>