mutt incorrect / misleading documentation in manual.txt

Bug #1085724 reported by B Bobo
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Bug Description

The documentation in manual.txt is incorrect / misleading in several places.

1. See under section 2, "Regular Expressions"

     "\" must be quoted if used for a regular expression in an initialization command: “\\”.

"Quoted" is an incorrect and misleading word in this context. The intended meaning is actually "escaped". A better wording for the sentence, also changing "for" to "in":

     "\" must be escaped if used in a regular expression in an initialization command: “\\”.

2. Inconsistent terminology.

The documentation refers in various places to: "config commands", "muttrc commands", and even "commands", but all of these terms actually mean "muttrc commands". It would be better to use consistent terminology, e.g. change "commands" and "config commands" into "muttrc commands" everywhere in the documentation.

In manual.txt it says under the section "Command-Line Options":

     │-e │specify a config command to be run after initialization files are read│

change to:
     │-e │specify a muttrc command to be run after initialization files are read│

and mutt's command-line help says:

  -e <command> specify a command to be executed after initialization

This should be changed for consistency to:
  -e <command> specify a muttrc command to be executed after initialization

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