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+.TH "SELECTOR" 1 "July 2009" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+
 \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>
 \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
 \" 3.0 License.
 
-.TH "SELECTOR" 1 "July 2009" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
-
 .SH "NAME"
 
 selector \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection
@@ -14,17 +14,17 @@ selector \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection
 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 
-\fBselector\fP is a command line utility for dynamic string
-selection. It reads the content of the specified files, and as the
-user types a list of strings separated by ";" (or a regexp), the
+\fBselector\fP is a command line utility for interactive real-time
+pattern matching. It reads the content of the specified files, and as
+the user types a list of strings separated by ";" (or a regexp), the
 display is updated in real time to show only the lines containing all
 the said strings (or matching the regexp).
 
-This command was mainly designed as a way to search in the shell
-history, for which it is substantially more efficient than the
-standard readline ^R binding. With the -v option, it injects the
-selected line into the tty input buffer, hence allowing the user to
-edit the line and execute it as a standard command.
+This command was mainly designed as a way to search efficiently in the
+shell history, for which it is substantially better than the standard
+readline ^R binding. With the -v option, it injects the selected line
+into the tty input buffer, hence allowing the user to edit the line
+and execute it as a standard command.
 
 Selector is also a handy tool to test regexps, or to display menus
 with many possible choices. For the latter, the -x option allows to