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-.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.6" "February 2012" "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.
@@ -39,7 +37,11 @@ can not be used as one of the input files.
 
 The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add
 
-.B source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd
+.RS
+.EX
+source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd
+.EE
+.RE
 
 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.
@@ -140,7 +142,8 @@ 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
@@ -149,18 +152,28 @@ specify the maximum number of lines to take into account
 
 To use selector to search into your bash history
 
-.B selector -q --bash <(history)
+.RS
+.EX
+selector -q --bash <(history)
+.EE
+.RE
 
 To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected
-one (using @ as a separator)
+one
 
-.B selector -v -x @ <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq@cd \(dq$0}\(aq)
+.RS
+.EX
+selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 }\(aq)
+.EE
+.RE
 
-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)
+To select a line in a long text and write the line number in /tmp/nb
 
-.B selector -v -x ^A <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq^A\(dqNR }\(aq)
+.RS
+.EX
+selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq)
+.EE
+.RE
 
 .SH "BUGS"