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authorVarik Valefor <38414004+varikvalefor@users.noreply.github.com>2021-05-30 03:03:40 -0400
committerAndrew Gallant <jamslam@gmail.com>2021-05-31 21:51:18 -0400
commitbeda5f70dc12ffba383f2861461820de24816ef3 (patch)
treeb0a4529ea0da613d99905fd3c2580603b7fc7bbe /doc
parent5af7707a350d96066c47965075b09050bc1cf33c (diff)
doc: improve wording
This tightens up the wording in ripgrep's opening description. It's used in several places, so we update all of them. Closes #1881
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl b/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl
index aef86746..27f57dd8 100644
--- a/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl
+++ b/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ rg(1)
Name
----
-rg - recursively search current directory for lines matching a pattern
+rg - recursively search the current directory for lines matching a pattern
Synopsis
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Synopsis
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-ripgrep (rg) recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
+ripgrep (rg) recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.
By default, ripgrep will respect your .gitignore and automatically skip hidden
files/directories and binary files.
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ _PATH_::
OPTIONS
-------
-Note that for many options, there exist flags to disable them. In some cases,
-those flags are not listed in a first class way below. For example, the
-*--column* flag (listed below) enables column numbers in ripgrep's output, but
-the *--no-column* flag (not listed below) disables them. The reverse can also
+Note that many options can be disabled via flags. In some cases, those flags
+are not listed in a first class way below. For example, the *--column*
+flag (listed below) enables column numbers in ripgrep's output, but the
+*--no-column* flag (not listed below) disables them. The reverse can also
exist. For example, the *--no-ignore* flag (listed below) disables ripgrep's
*gitignore* logic, but the *--ignore* flag (not listed below) enables it. These
flags are useful for overriding a ripgrep configuration file on the command