From b87448eda416d82000ab9bd4996f4c42c53e2211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "C. McEnroe" <june@causal.agency>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:26:40 -0500
Subject: Rewrite scoop(1) argument descriptions

---
 scoop.1 | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scoop.1 b/scoop.1
index f6a950b..823e5ee 100644
--- a/scoop.1
+++ b/scoop.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.Dd December 30, 2019
+.Dd December 31, 2019
 .Dt SCOOP 1
 .Os
 .
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ if it is not already set.
 The arguments are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Fl D Ar date
-Match events on the specified date.
+Match events which occurred on
+.Ar date ,
+of the format
+.Ar YYYY-MM-DD .
 .
 .It Fl N Ar network
-Match events from the specified network.
+Match events from contexts on
+.Ar network .
 .
 .It Fl T Ar target
 Match events
@@ -53,12 +57,13 @@ of type
 or
 .Cm nick
 .Pc
-with the specified
+with
 .Ar target .
 .
 .It Fl c Ar context
-Match events from the specified context,
-either channel or query name.
+Match events from
+.Ar context ,
+either a channel or query name.
 .
 .It Fl d Ar path
 Set the database path.
@@ -68,13 +73,16 @@ The default path is as in
 .Xr litterbox 1 .
 .
 .It Fl h Ar host
-Match events from users with the specified hostname.
+Match events from users with the hostname
+.Ar host .
 .
 .It Fl l Ar limit
-Limit the number of most recent results.
+Limit the number of events matched,
+ordered by most recent.
 .
 .It Fl n Ar nick
-Match events from users with the specified nickname.
+Match events from users with the nickname
+.Ar nick .
 .
 .It Fl p
 Match only events from channels.
@@ -89,7 +97,7 @@ launch the
 shell for the database.
 .
 .It Fl t Ar type
-Match events of the specified
+Match events of
 .Ar type .
 The types are
 .Cm privmsg ,
@@ -103,10 +111,11 @@ The types are
 .Cm topic .
 .
 .It Fl u Ar user
-Match events from users with the specified username.
+Match events from users with the username
+.Ar user .
 .
 .It Fl v
-Print the SQL query being used on standard error.
+Print the expanded SQL query being used to standard error.
 .
 .It Ar search
 Match events using full-text search.
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