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diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1
index 44bd32a..75c5384 100644
--- a/selector.1
+++ b/selector.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.5" "November 2011" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "July 2012" "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
@@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ 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
-specify a label delimiter: the part of each line before that character
-will appear during the selection, but only the part after that
-character will be returned.
+show different strings than the ones returned.
 
 Note that because this is an interactive command, the standard input
 can not be used as one of the input files.
@@ -39,10 +37,13 @@ can not be used as one of the input files.
 
 The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add
 
+.P
+.nf
 .B source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd
 
+.fi
 in your \fB~/.bashrc\fR, it will remap M-r to the smart history search,
-and redefine cd so that M-c provides a smart cd history.
+and redefine \fBcd\fR so that M-c provides a smart cd history.
 
 .SH "KEY BINDINGS"
 
@@ -91,7 +92,13 @@ with the same visible part if you use the -x option)
 start in regexp mode
 .TP
 \fB-a\fR, \fB--case-sensitive\fR
-start in case sensitive mode
+start in case-sensitive mode
+.TP
+\fB-j\fR, \fB--show-long-lines\fR
+print a long-line indicator at the end of truncated lines
+.TP
+\fB-y\fR, \fB--show-hits\fR
+highlight the part(s) of each line which match the substrings or regexp
 .TP
 \fB-u\fR, \fB--upper-case-makes-case-sensitive\fR
 using an upper case in the matching string makes the matching
@@ -111,6 +118,9 @@ standard setting for bash history search, same as
 \fB-t \fI<title>\fR, \fB--title \fI<title>\fR
 add a title in the modeline
 .TP
+\fB-r \fI<pattern>\fR, \fB--pattern \fI<pattern>\fR
+set a pattern
+.TP
 \fB-c \fI<colors>\fR, \fB--colors \fI<colors>\fR
 select the modeline and highlight color numbers with a color list of
 the form
@@ -131,7 +141,8 @@ specify the character to separate the substrings in the search pattern
 .TP
 \fB-x \fI<separator>\fR, \fB--label-separator \fI<separator>\fR
 specify the character to separate what to show to the user during the
-selection from the line to return
+selection from the line to return. If the provided separator is "\\n",
+the lines to show to the user alternate with the lines to return
 .TP
 \fB-l \fI<number>\fR, \fB--number-of-lines \fI<number>\fR
 specify the maximum number of lines to take into account
@@ -140,18 +151,30 @@ specify the maximum number of lines to take into account
 
 To use selector to search into your bash history
 
-.B selector -q --bash <(history)
+.P
+.nf
+.B
 
+selector -q --bash <(history)
+
+.fi
 To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected
-one (using @ as a separator)
+one
+
+.P
+.nf
+.B
+
+selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 }\(aq)
 
-.B selector -v -x @ <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq@cd \(dq$0}\(aq)
+.fi
+To select a line in a long text and write the line number in /tmp/nb
 
-To select a line in a long text and returns the line number (this
-command uses ^A as a separator, hence there will be problems if the
-file contains ^A)
+.P
+.nf
+.B
 
-.B selector -v -x ^A <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq^A\(dqNR }\(aq)
+selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq)
 
 .SH "BUGS"