diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 7425139b..044ffdc9 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ At startup, if `-n` is not specified, Kakoune will try to source the file
 `../share/kak/kakrc` relative to the kak binary. This kak file will then try
 to recursively source any files in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kak/autoload` (with
 `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` defaulting to `$HOME/.config`, and falling back to
-`../share/kak/autoload/` if that autoload directory does not exists),
-and finally `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kak/kakrc`.
+`../share/kak/autoload/` if that autoload directory does not exists), then
+`../share/kak/kakrc.local` if it exists, and finally `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kak/kakrc`.
 
 That leads to the following behaviour: by default, with no user autoload
 directory, the system wide autoload directory is used, once the user wants
diff --git a/share/kak/kakrc b/share/kak/kakrc
index eb7788bc..9d1eced1 100644
--- a/share/kak/kakrc
+++ b/share/kak/kakrc
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ def -params 1 -docstring "colorscheme <name>: enable named colorscheme" \
         autoload ${kak_runtime}/autoload
     fi
 
+    if [ -f "${kak_runtime}/kakrc.local" ]; then
+        echo "source '${kak_runtime}/kakrc.local'"
+    fi
+
     if [ -f "${localconfdir}/kakrc" ]; then
         echo "source '${localconfdir}/kakrc'"
     fi