Makefile.am: Alter long lists to be sorted, one entry per line.

[nmh] / man / nmh.man

diff --git a/man/nmh.man b/man/nmh.man
index 0c32cde52f8511f247893457892fdc0a0dbff5e3..0afc64fc3a32b46917ed5bdc51f54f422d29449b 100644 (file)
--- a/man/nmh.man
+++ b/man/nmh.man
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.TH NMH %manext7% "September 26, 2016" "%nmhversion%"
-.\"
+.TH NMH %manext7% 2016-09-26 "%nmhversion%"
+.
 .\" %nmhwarning%
-.\"
+.
 .\" Register 'tt' contains the indent for .TP in the COMMANDS section:
 .nr tt \w'\fImh-sequence\fR(5)\0\0'u
 .\"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ consists of a collection
 of fairly simple single-purpose programs to send, retrieve, save,
 and manipulate messages.
 .PP
-Unlike most mail clients in UNIX,
+Unlike most mail clients in Unix,
 .B nmh
 is not a closed system which
 must be explicitly run, then exited when you wish to return to the shell.
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ to find the answer to someone's question before answering their mail.
 The rest of this manual entry is a quick tutorial which will teach you
 the basics of
 .BR nmh .
-You should read the manual entries for the
-individual programs for complete documentation.
+You should read the manual entries for the individual programs for
+complete documentation (see the section on
+.I COMMANDS
+below).
 .PP
 To get started using
 .BR nmh ,
@@ -47,14 +49,14 @@ before, it will create the necessary default files and directories after
 asking you if you wish it to do so.
 .PP
 .B inc
-moves mail from your system maildrop into your
+moves mail from your system mail drop into your
 .B nmh
 \*(lq+inbox\*(rq
 folder, breaking it up into separate files and converting it
 to
 .B nmh
-format as it goes.  It prints one line for each message it
-processes, containing the from field, the subject field and as much of
+format.  It prints one line for each message it processes,
+containing the from field, the subject field and as much of
 the first line of the message as will fit.  It leaves the first message
 it processes as your current message.  You'll need to run
 .B inc
@@ -74,10 +76,8 @@ and
 are used to read
 specific messages from the current folder.
 .B show
-displays the
-current message, or a specific message, which may be specified by its
-number, which you pass as an argument to
-.BR show .
+displays the current message, or a specific message specified by its
+number which is passed as an argument.
 .B next
 and
 .B prev
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ may be used to advance to the
 first message.
 .PP
 .B rmm
-(remove message) deletes the current message.  It may be called
+(remove message) deletes the current message.  It may be called,
 with message numbers passed as arguments, to delete specific messages.
 .PP
 .B repl
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ on a prototype message form, and then lets you send it via the
 .B whatnow
 command.
 .B whatnow
-also supports easy\-to\-use management of MIME attachments via
+also supports easy-to-use management of MIME attachments via
 its
 .B attach
 and related responses, as described in its man page.
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Commands which take a message number as an argument
 \*(lqprev\*(rq, \*(lqcur\*(rq, \*(lqnext\*(rq, or \*(lqlast\*(rq to indicate
 (respectively) the first, previous, current, next, or last message in
 the current folder (assuming they are defined).
-As a shorthand, \*(lq\&.\*(rq is equivalent to \*(lqcur\*(rq.
+As a shorthand, \*(lq.\*(rq is equivalent to \*(lqcur\*(rq.
 .PP
 Commands which take a range of message numbers
 .RB ( rmm ,
@@ -178,8 +178,11 @@ Indicates all messages, i.e.,
 .TP
 .IR <num> :\-N
 Up to
+.IR N ,
+where
 .I N
-messages beginning with (or ending with) message
+must be a positive number, messages beginning with (or ending with)
+message
 .IR num .
 .I Num
 may be any of the pre-defined symbols
@@ -189,6 +192,7 @@ may be any of the pre-defined symbols
 .B next
 or
 .BR last .
+The + can be omitted.
 .PD
 .TP
 .RI first: N
@@ -199,8 +203,9 @@ or
 .RI next: N
 .TP
 .RI last: N
-The first, previous, next or last
-messages, if they exist.
+As many of the first, previous, next, or last N messages that exist.
+As above, N can be preceded with - to end the listing at the specified
+message, or with an optional +.
 .PD
 .PP
 Commands that take a folder name
@@ -355,7 +360,7 @@ show the next message
 show the previous message
 .TP
 .IR show (1)
-show(display) messages
+show (display) messages
 .TP
 .IR scan (1)
 produce a one line per message scan listing
@@ -401,7 +406,7 @@ Across folders:
 list folders with new messages
 .TP
 .IR unseen (1)
-list new messages in a give set of folders
+list new messages in a given set of folders
 .TP
 .IR flist (1)
 list folders with messages in given sequence(s)
@@ -540,7 +545,7 @@ contains
 .B nmh
 library commands
 .TP
-$HOME/\&.mh\-profile
+$HOME/.mh_profile
 The user's nmh profile
 .ne 4
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
@@ -577,4 +582,4 @@ the version of
 the host it was compiled on, and the date the
 program was linked.
 .PP
-New releases and other information of potential interest are announced at http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ .
+New releases, and other information of potential interest, are announced at http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/