From 6b68abeccb4667f6f3b34639f19c44824cc0aff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Kiddle Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:04:55 +0200 Subject: man: correct typos and wording Closes: #43 [via git-merge-pr] --- man/mblaze.7 | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/mblaze.7') diff --git a/man/mblaze.7 b/man/mblaze.7 index d217070..7e90ff5 100644 --- a/man/mblaze.7 +++ b/man/mblaze.7 @@ -86,14 +86,14 @@ or similar. expects your mail to reside in Maildir folders. .Pp .Nm -operates directly on Maildir and doesn't use own caches or databases. +operates directly on Maildir and doesn't use its own caches or databases. There is no setup needed for many uses. All tools have been written with performance in mind. Enumeration of all mails in a Maildir is avoided unless necessary, -and then optimized to use few syscalls. -Parsing mail metadata is optimized to use few I/O requests. +and then optimized to limit syscalls. +Parsing mail metadata is optimized to limit I/O requests. Initial operations on big Maildir may feel slow, but as soon as they -are in file system cache, everything is blazing fast. +are in the file system cache, everything is blazingly fast. The tools are written to be memory efficient (i.e. not wasteful), but whole messages are assumed to fit into RAM easily (one at a time). .Pp @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ or .Xr mu 1 . .Sh EXAMPLES .Nm -tools are designed to be composed together into a pipe. +tools are designed to be composed together in a pipe. It is suitable for interactive use and for scripting. It integrates well into a Unix workflow. .Pp @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ To operate on a set of mails in multiple steps, you can save a list of mail as a sequence. E.g. add a call to .Ql mseq -S -to above command: +to the above command: .Dl mlist -s ~/Maildir/INBOX | msort -d | mseq -S | mscan Now mscan will show message numbers and you could look at the first five mails at once, for example: @@ -147,12 +147,12 @@ As usual with pipes, the sky is the limit. .Nm deals with messages (which are files), folders (which are Maildir folders), -sequences (which are newline-separated lists of messages, possibly persisted on disk in +sequences (which are newline-separated lists of messages, possibly saved on disk in .Pa ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/seq ) , and the current message (kept as a symlink in .Pa ${MBLAZE:-$HOME/.mblaze}/cur ) . .Pp -Messages in the persisted sequence can be referred to using special +Messages in the saved sequence can be referred to using special syntax as explained in .Xr mmsg 7 . .Pp -- cgit 1.4.1