diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 835fcf8bcaf..139e65a4f19 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1712,6 +1712,12 @@ This fills the region to be no wider than a specified pixel width.
 This will take you to the gnu.org web server's version of the current
 info node.  This command only works for the Emacs and Emacs Lisp manuals.
 
+** Shortdoc
+
+---
+*** 'N' and 'P' are now bound to 'shortdoc-(next|previous)-section'.
+This is in addition to the old keybindings 'C-c C-n' and 'C-c C-p'.
+
 ** VC
 
 ---
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el
index d07d1019b4d..13d99adcf08 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/shortdoc.el
@@ -1512,6 +1512,8 @@ Example:
   :doc "Keymap for `shortdoc-mode'."
   "n"       #'shortdoc-next
   "p"       #'shortdoc-previous
+  "N"       #'shortdoc-next-section
+  "P"       #'shortdoc-previous-section
   "C-c C-n" #'shortdoc-next-section
   "C-c C-p" #'shortdoc-previous-section)