Minor documentation fixes

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doc_src/bg.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Sends the specified jobs to the background. A background job is
 executed simultaneously with fish, and does not have access to the
 keyboard. If no job is specified, the last job to be used is put in the background. If PID is specified, the jobs with the specified group ids are put in the background.
 
-The PID of the desired process is usually found by using process globbing.
+The PID of the desired process is usually found by using <a href="index.html#expand-process">process expansion</a>.
 
 \subsection bg-example Example
 

doc_src/fg.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Sends the specified job to the foreground. While a foreground job is
 executed, fish is suspended. If no job is specified, the last job to be used is put in the foreground. If PID is specified, the job with the specified group id is put in the foreground.
 
-The PID of the desired process is usually found by using process globbing.
+The PID of the desired process is usually found by using <a href="index.html#expand-process">process expansion</a>.
 
 \subsection fg-example Example
 

doc_src/index.hdr.in

@@ -741,8 +741,8 @@ command</a>.
 
 Example: 
 
-To set the variable \c smurf to the value \c blue, use the command
+To set the variable \c smurf_color to the value \c blue, use the command
-<code>set smurf blue</code>.
+<code>set smurf_color blue</code>.
 
 After a variable has been set, you can use the value of a variable in
 the shell through <a href="expand-variable">variable expansion</a>.
@@ -751,7 +751,8 @@ Example:
 
 To use the value of a the variable \c smurf, write $ (dollar symbol)
 followed by the name of the variable, like <code>echo Smurfs are
-$smurf</code>, which would print the result 'Smurfs are blue'.
+usually $smurf_color</code>, which would print the result 'Smurfs are
+usually blue'.
 
 \subsection variables-scope Variable scope
 

doc_src/ulimit.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ omitted, the current value of the limit of the resource is printed.
 
 Use one of the following switches to specify which resource limit to set or report:
 
-- <code>-c</code> or <code>--core-size</code> The maximum size of core files created
+- <code>-c</code> or <code>--core-size</code> The maximum size of core files created. By setting this limit to zero, core dumps can be disabled.
 - <code>-d</code> or <code>--data-size</code> The maximum size of a process's data segment
 - <code>-f</code> or <code>--file-size</code> The maximum size of files created by the shell
 - <code>-l</code> or <code>--lock-size</code> The maximum size that may be locked into memory
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ ulimit also accepts the following switches that determine what type of limit to
 - <code>-H</code> or <code>--hard</code> Set hard resource limit
 - <code>-S</code> or <code>--soft</code> Set soft resource limit
 
-A hard limit cannot be increased once it is set; a soft limit may be
+A hard limit can only be decreased, once it is set it can not be
-increased up to the value of the hard limit. If neither -H nor -S is
+increased; a soft limit may be increased up to the value of the hard
-specified, both the soft and hard limits are updated when assigning a
+limit. If neither -H nor -S is specified, both the soft and hard
-new limit value, and the soft limit is used when reporting the current
+limits are updated when assigning a new limit value, and the soft
-value. 
+limit is used when reporting the current value.
 
 The following additional options are also understood by ulimit:
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The fish implementation of ulimit should behave identically to the
 implementation in bash, except for these differences:
 
 - Fish ulimit supports GNU-style long options for all switches
-- Fish ulimit does not support the -p option for getting the pipe size. The bash implementation consists of a compile-time check that empirically guesses this number by writing to a pipe and waiting for SIGPIPE. Depending on bash version, there may also be further additional limits to set in bash that do not exist in fish.
+- Fish ulimit does not support the -p option for getting the pipe size. The bash implementation consists of a compile-time check that empirically guesses this number by writing to a pipe and waiting for SIGPIPE. Fish does not do this because it this method of determining pipe sixe is unreliable. Depending on bash version, there may also be further additional limits to set in bash that do not exist in fish.
 - Fish ulimit does not support getting or setting multiple limits in one command, except reporting all values using the -a switch
 
 \subsection ulimit-example Example

doc_src/umask.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\section umask umask - set or get the shells resource usage limits
+\section umask umask - set or get the file-creation mask
 
 \subsection umask-synopsis Synopsis
 <code>umask [OPTIONS] [MASK]</code>