diff --git a/man/mu-cleanup.1 b/man/mu-cleanup.1
index 830800ae..73d9f5e7 100644
--- a/man/mu-cleanup.1
+++ b/man/mu-cleanup.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU CLEANUP 1 "August 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU CLEANUP 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ try \fI~/Maildir\fR.
.
.SH BUGS
-There probably are some; please report bugs when you find them:
+Please report bugs if you find them:
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR
diff --git a/man/mu-extract.1 b/man/mu-extract.1
index 143a80a1..5dd09a18 100644
--- a/man/mu-extract.1
+++ b/man/mu-extract.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU VIEW 1 "August 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU EXTRACT 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ mu extract\- display and save message parts (attachments)
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmu extact\fR is the \fBmu\fR sub-command for extracting MIME-parts (e.g.,
-attachments) from mail messages. It works on files, and does not require the
+attachments) from mail messages. It works on message files, and does not require the
message to be indexed.
For attachments, the name specified in the message is used; when saving
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ save all MIME-parts that look like attachments.
save all non-multipart MIME-parts.
\fB\-\-target\-dir\fR=
-save the parts in some other directory than the current one.
+save the parts in the target directory rather than the current one.
\fB\-\-overwrite\fR
overwrite existing files with the same name.
.SH BUGS
-There probably are some; please report bugs when you find them:
+Please report bugs if you find them:
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR
diff --git a/man/mu-find.1 b/man/mu-find.1
index 681b5839..1dfcaaf6 100644
--- a/man/mu-find.1
+++ b/man/mu-find.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU FIND 1 "August 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU FIND 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -20,20 +20,27 @@ store earlier using
The \fBfind\fR command starts a search for messages in the database that match
the search pattern.
-The search pattern is taken as a command line parameter. If the search
+The search pattern is taken as a command-line parameter. If the search
parameter consists of multiple parts (multiple command line parameters) they
are treated as if there were a logical \fBAND\fR between them.
If you want to make your own constructions (using \fBAND\fR, \fBOR\fR,
-\fBNOT\fR etc., you have to put quote them so \fBmu\fR can consider them as a
-unit.
+\fBNOT\fR etc., you have to put quotes around them so \fBmu\fR can consider
+them as a unit; for example to find mails with oranges OR mandarins in the
+subject-field, you'd use:
+.nf
+ mu find 'subject:orange OR subject:mandarin'
+.fi
+
+\fBmu find\fR does not distinguish between uppercase or lowercase for search
+terms.
\fBmu\fR relies on the Xapian database for its searching capabilities, so it
offers all the search functionality that Xapian offers; please refer to:
\fIhttp://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html\fR
-All queries are logged in \fI/mu.log\fR.
+Note that queries are logged in \fI/mu.log\fR.
The basic way to search a message is to type some words matching it, as you
would do in an internet search engine. For example,
@@ -46,7 +53,6 @@ will find all message that contain both 'monkey' and 'banana'. Matching is
case-insensitive and recognizes various forms of a word such as plurals; this
is all courtesy of Xapian.
-
\fBmu\fR also recognizes prefixes for specific fields in a messages; for
example:
@@ -289,7 +295,7 @@ typing 'Q' will start a query.
.SH BUGS
-There probably are some; please report bugs when you find them:
+Please report bugs if you find them:
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR
diff --git a/man/mu-index.1 b/man/mu-index.1
index bbc53875..14d8f99e 100644
--- a/man/mu-index.1
+++ b/man/mu-index.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU-INDEX 1 "August 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU-INDEX 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -11,26 +11,21 @@ mu index \- index e-mail messages stored in Maildirs
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmu index\fR is the \fBmu\fR sub-command for scanning the contents of
-Maildir directories and storing it in a database which can then be searched
-using
+Maildir directories and storing the results in a Xapian database which can
+then be searched using
.BR mu-find(1)
\.
-Using the
.B index
-command, you can index your Maildir directories, and store the information in
-a Xapian database.
-
-.B index
-understands Maildirs as defined by Dan Bernstein for qmail(7). In addition, it
-understands recursive Maildirs (Maildirs within Maildirs), Maildir++. It can
-also deal with VFAT-based Maildirs which use '!' as the seperators instead
+understands Maildirs as defined by Daniel Bernstein for qmail(7). In addition,
+it understands recursive Maildirs (Maildirs within Maildirs), Maildir++. It
+can also deal with VFAT-based Maildirs which use '!' as the seperators instead
of ':' as used by Tinymail/Modest and some other e-mail programs.
E-mail messages which are not stored in something resembling a maildir leaf
directory (\fIcur\fR and \fInew\fR) are ignored.
-Currently, symlinks are not followed.
+Symlinks are not followed.
If there is a file called \fI.noindex\fR in a directory, the contents of that
directory and all of its subdirectories will be ignored. This can be useful to
@@ -169,11 +164,10 @@ To store these files elsewhere from their default location, one can use the
\fBmu index\fR uses \fBMAILDIR\fR to find the user's Maildir if it has not
been specified explicitly with \fB\-\-maildir\fR=\fI\fR. If MAILDIR
is not set, \fBmu index\fR will try \fI~/Maildir\fR.
-.
.SH BUGS
-There probably are some; please report bugs when you find them:
+Please report bugs if you find them:
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR
diff --git a/man/mu-mkdir.1 b/man/mu-mkdir.1
index eb16e62c..3c0dd319 100644
--- a/man/mu-mkdir.1
+++ b/man/mu-mkdir.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU MKDIR 1 "August 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU MKDIR 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
diff --git a/man/mu-view.1 b/man/mu-view.1
index 2399c1ae..e693c69a 100644
--- a/man/mu-view.1
+++ b/man/mu-view.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU VIEW 1 "August 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU VIEW 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -11,26 +11,24 @@ mu view\- display an e-mail message file
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmu view\fR is the \fBmu\fR sub-command for displaying an e-mail message
-file. It works on files, and does not require the message to be indexed before
-using
+file. It works on message files and does not require the message to be indexed
+in the mu database with
.BR mu-index(1)
\.
-Currently, the command shows some common headers (From:, To:, Cc:, Subject:
-and Date:) and the plain-text body of the message.
+The command shows some common headers (From:, To:, Cc:, Subject: and Date:)
+and the plain-text body of the message, if there is any.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-summary\-len\fR=\fI\fR
instead of the full message, output a summary based on up to \fI\len\fR lines
-of the message. The default is
-.B 0
-, which means 'show full body'.
+of the message. The default is 0, which means 'show full body'.
.SH BUGS
-There probably are some; please report bugs when you find them:
+Please report bugs if you find them:
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR