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diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst
index bad868be..14d598ab 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst
@@ -50,9 +50,8 @@ Supported options for **show** include
             messages is reflected in nested JSON output. By default JSON
             output includes all messages in a matching thread; that is,
             by default,
-
-            ``--format=json`` sets ``--entire-thread`` The caller can
-            disable this behaviour by setting ``--entire-thread=false``
+            ``--format=json`` sets ``--entire-thread``. The caller can
+            disable this behaviour by setting ``--entire-thread=false``.
 
         **sexp**
             The output is formatted as an S-Expression (sexp). This
@@ -61,9 +60,8 @@ Supported options for **show** include
             is reflected in nested S-Expression output. By default,
             S-Expression output includes all messages in a matching
             thread; that is, by default,
-
-            ``--format=sexp`` sets ``--entire-thread`` The caller can
-            disable this behaviour by setting ``--entire-thread=false``
+            ``--format=sexp`` sets ``--entire-thread``. The caller can
+            disable this behaviour by setting ``--entire-thread=false``.
 
         **mbox**
             All matching messages are output in the traditional, Unix
@@ -76,22 +74,22 @@ Supported options for **show** include
 
 	    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
 
-        **raw** (default for a single part, see --part)
-            For a message or an attached message part, the original, raw
-            content of the email message is output. Consumers of this
-            format should expect to implement MIME decoding and similar
-            functions.
+        **raw** (default if --part is given)
+            Write the raw bytes of the given MIME part of a message to
+            standard out. For this format, it is an error to specify a
+            query that matches more than one message.
 
-            For a single part (--part) the raw part content is output
-            after performing any necessary MIME decoding. Note that
-            messages with a simple body still have two parts: part 0 is
-            the whole message and part 1 is the body.
+            If the specified part is a leaf part, this outputs the
+            body of the part after performing content transfer
+            decoding (but no charset conversion). This is suitable for
+            saving attachments, for example.
 
-            For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including
-            all child parts) is output.
-
-            The raw format must only be used with search terms matching
-            single message.
+            For a multipart or message part, the output includes the
+            part headers as well as the body (including all child
+            parts). No decoding is performed because multipart and
+            message parts cannot have non-trivial content transfer
+            encoding. Consumers of this may need to implement MIME
+            decoding and similar functions.
 
     ``--format-version=N``
         Use the specified structured output format version. This is
@@ -105,6 +103,10 @@ Supported options for **show** include
         and are identified in the 'json', 'sexp' or 'text' output
         formats.
 
+        Note that even a message with no MIME structure or a single
+        body part still has two MIME parts: part 0 is the whole
+        message (headers and body) and part 1 is just the body.
+
     ``--verify``
         Compute and report the validity of any MIME cryptographic
         signatures found in the selected content (ie. "multipart/signed"