diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ef4d6b03..a4d037ff 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.11.0",
  "log",
  "nom",
+ "nom-unicode",
  "num_cpus",
  "once_cell",
  "paste",
@@ -164,6 +165,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rstest",
  "serde",
  "serial_test",
+ "shell-words",
  "test-log",
  "tree-sitter",
  "tree-sitter-python",
@@ -1038,6 +1040,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "minimal-lexical",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nom-unicode"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a5c03a4d71ab9740c752c165329e9df13a808093b146dfbef6170ac260771ffe"
+dependencies = [
+ "nom",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-traits"
 version = "0.2.16"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ff580419..632c270a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ fancy-regex = "0.11.0"
 
 [features]
 default = ["all"]
-all = ["german", "symbols", "deletion", "squeeze", "upper", "lower", "replace"]
+all = ["german", "deletion", "squeeze", "upper", "lower", "replace", "symbols"]
 german = []
 symbols = []
 deletion = []
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ enum-iterator = "1.4.1"
 serial_test = "2.0.0"
 comrak = "0.18.0"
 nom = "7.1.3"
+nom-unicode = "0.3.0"
+shell-words = "1.1.0"
 
 [profile.dev.package.insta]
 # https://insta.rs/docs/quickstart/#optional-faster-runs
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5906d3d2..06da15c8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,9 +4,20 @@
 
 ## Usage
 
-### As a drop-in replacement for `tr`
+1. Conventional
+   1. Actions
+2. Unicode tricks
+3. Scoping
 
-There is some overlap with plain `tr`, so simple replacements work as expected:
+### Conventional
+
+There is considerable overlap with plain `tr`: the tool is designed to have close to
+drop-in compatibility for the most common use cases. As such, the tool can be used
+'conventionally'.
+
+#### Replacements
+
+For example, simple replacements work as expected:
 
 ```console
 $ echo 'Hello, World!' | betterletters 'H' 'J'
@@ -14,27 +25,30 @@ Jello, World!
 ```
 
 However, there is no direct concept of character classes. Instead, the first argument is
-a regular expression pattern, so *its* classes can be used to similar effect:
+a regular expression pattern, so *its* [classes](https://docs.rs/regex/1.9.5/regex/index.html#character-classes) can be used to similar effect:
 
 ```console
 $ echo 'Hello, World!' | betterletters '[a-z]' '_'
 H____, W____!
 ```
 
-The replacement occurs greedily across the entire match by default:
+The replacement occurs greedily across the entire match by default (note the [UTS character
+class](https://docs.rs/regex/1.9.5/regex/index.html#ascii-character-classes),
+reminiscent of [`tr`'s
+`[:alnum:]`](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/769ace51e8a1129c44ee4e7e209c3b2df2111524/src/tr.c#L322C25-L322C25)):
 
 ```console
-$ echo 'ghp_oHn0As3cr3T' | betterletters 'ghp_[a-zA-Z0-9]+' '*' # A GitHub token
-*
+$ echo 'ghp_oHn0As3cr3T!!' | betterletters 'ghp_[[:alnum:]]+' '*' # A GitHub token
+*!!
 ```
 
-However, in the presence of capture groups, the individual characters comprising a
-capture group match are treated *individually* for processing, allowing a replacement to
-be repeated:
+However,
+in the presence of capture groups, the *individual characters comprising a capture group
+match* are treated *individually* for processing, allowing a replacement to be repeated:
 
 ```console
-$ echo 'ghp_oHn0As3cr3T' | betterletters '(ghp_[a-zA-Z0-9]+)' '*'
-***************
+$ echo 'Hide ghp_th15 and ghp_m0r3' | betterletters '(ghp_[a-zA-Z0-9]+)' '*'
+Hide ******** and ********
 ```
 
 Advanced regex features are
@@ -50,3 +64,75 @@ Take care in using these safely, as advanced patterns come without certain [safe
 performance guarantees](https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#untrusted-input). If they
 aren't used, [performance is not
 impacted](https://docs.rs/fancy-regex/0.11.0/fancy_regex/index.html#).
+
+The replacement is not limited to a single character. It can be any string, for example
+to fix [this quote](http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247):
+
+```console
+$ echo '"Using regex, I now have no issues."' | betterletters 'no issues' '2 problems'
+"Using regex, I now have 2 problems."
+```
+
+#### Other actions
+
+Seeing how the replacement is merely a static string, its usefulness is limited. This is
+where [`tr`'s secret sauce](https://maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/tr.html)
+comes into play using its character classes, which are valid in the second position as
+well, neatly translating from members of the first to the second. Here, those classes
+are instead regexes, and only valid in first position. A regular expression being a
+state machine, it is impossible to match onto a 'list of characters'. That concept is
+out the window, and its flexibility lost.
+
+## Common `tr` use cases
+
+In theory, `tr` is quite flexible. In practice, it is commonly used mainly across a
+couple specific tasks. Next to its two positional arguments ('arrays of characters'),
+one finds four flags:
+
+1. `-c`, `-C`, `--complement`: complement the first array
+2. `-d`, `--delete`: delete characters in the first first array
+3. `-s`, `--squeeze-repeats`: squeeze repeats of characters in the first array
+4. `-t`, `--truncate-set1`: truncate the first array to the length of the second
+
+In this tool, these are implemented as follows:
+
+1. is not available directly as an option; instead, negation of regular expression classes can be used (e.g., `[^a-z]`), to much more potent, flexible and well-known effect
+2. available (via regex)
+3. available (via regex)
+4. not available: it's inapplicable to regular expressions, not commonly used and, if used, often misused
+
+To show how uses of `tr` found in the wild can translate to this tool, consider the
+following section.
+
+### Use cases and equivalences in this tool
+
+The following sections are the approximate categories much of `tr` usage falls into.
+They were found using [GitHub's code search](https://cs.github.com). The corresponding
+queries are given. Results are from the first page of results at the time.
+
+As the stdin isn't known (usually dynamic), some representative samples are used and the
+tool is exercised on those.
+
+#### Identifier Safety
+
+Making inputs safe for use as identifiers, for example as variable names.
+
+[Query](https://github.com/search?type=code&q=%22tr+-c%22)
+
+1. [`tr -C '[:alnum:]_\n' '_'`](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/9328fda8ea8384e8cfcf1c78d1fe95d92bbad786/docs/make-docs#L234)
+
+   Translates to:
+
+   ```console
+   $ echo 'some-variable? 🤔' | betterletters '[^[[:alnum:]]_\n]' '_'
+    some_variable___
+   ```
+
+2. [`tr -c '[:alnum:]' _`](https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/9dc0c983b0931f359c2ff10d47ad835ef74e929a/libexec/rc/rc.d/jail#L413)
+
+    Translates to:
+
+    ```console
+    $ echo 'some  variablê' | betterletters '[^[[:alnum:]]]' '_'
+    some__variabl_
+    ```
diff --git a/tests/cli.rs b/tests/cli.rs
index 035f64a8..4f064a0d 100644
--- a/tests/cli.rs
+++ b/tests/cli.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 //! inputs/flags/options.
 
 #[cfg(test)]
+/// Only run these tests if the required features are *all* enabled. This will require
+/// adjusting and isn't ideal (not fine-grained).
+#[cfg(all(feature = "german", feature = "symbols", feature = "deletion"))]
 mod tests {
     use assert_cmd::Command;
     use rstest::rstest;
diff --git a/tests/readme.rs b/tests/readme.rs
index 9582b2d9..c69dadda 100644
--- a/tests/readme.rs
+++ b/tests/readme.rs
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@ mod tests {
         parse_document, Arena, ComrakOptions,
     };
 
-    use itertools::Itertools;
     use nom::{
-        bytes::complete::{tag, take_till, take_until, take_while1},
-        character::complete::{char, line_ending, multispace0},
+        branch::alt,
+        bytes::complete::{escaped, tag, take_till, take_until, take_while1},
+        character::complete::{alpha1 as ascii_alpha1, char, line_ending, multispace0, none_of},
         multi::many1,
+        sequence::delimited,
         Finish, IResult,
     };
+    use shell_words::split;
 
     #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
     struct CommandUnderTest {
@@ -21,26 +23,29 @@ mod tests {
         stdout: String,
     }
 
+    /// https://stackoverflow.com/a/58907488/11477374
+    fn parse_quoted(input: &str) -> IResult<&str, &str> {
+        let esc = escaped(none_of("\\\'"), '\\', tag("'"));
+        let esc_or_empty = alt((esc, tag("")));
+        let res = delimited(tag("'"), esc_or_empty, tag("'"))(input)?;
+
+        Ok(res)
+    }
+
     fn parse_command_output_pair(input: &str) -> IResult<&str, CommandUnderTest> {
-        let (input, _) = char('$')(input)?;
+        let (input, _terminal_prompt) = char('$')(input)?;
 
-        let (input, _) = multispace0(input)?;
-        let (input, _) = tag("echo")(input)?;
-        let (input, _) = multispace0(input)?;
+        let (input, _echo_cmd) = delimited(multispace0, tag("echo"), multispace0)(input)?;
 
-        let quote = '\'';
-        let (input, _) = char(quote)(input)?;
-        // Doesn't handle escaping
-        let (input, stdin) = take_until("\'")(input)?;
-        let (input, _) = char(quote)(input)?;
+        let (input, stdin) = parse_quoted(input)?;
 
-        let (input, _) = multispace0(input)?;
-        let (input, _) = char('|')(input)?;
-        let (input, _) = multispace0(input)?;
+        let (input, _unix_pipe) = delimited(multispace0, char('|'), multispace0)(input)?;
 
-        let (input, _program) = take_till(|c| c == ' ')(input)?;
+        let (input, _program_name) = ascii_alpha1(input)?;
+
+        let (input, _) = multispace0(input)?;
 
-        let (input, args) = take_while1(|c| c != '#' && c != '\n')(input)?;
+        let (input, raw_args) = take_while1(|c| c != '#' && c != '\n')(input)?;
         let (input, _) = take_until("\n")(input)?;
         let (input, _) = line_ending(input)?;
 
@@ -52,12 +57,7 @@ mod tests {
             input,
             CommandUnderTest {
                 stdin: stdin.trim().to_string(),
-                args: args
-                    .split_whitespace()
-                    .map(String::from)
-                    .filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
-                    .map(|s| s.replace(quote, ""))
-                    .collect_vec(),
+                args: split(raw_args).expect("Should be able to split args"),
                 stdout: stdout.trim().to_string(),
             },
         ))
@@ -83,13 +83,11 @@ mod tests {
 
             if let NodeValue::CodeBlock(NodeCodeBlock { info, literal, .. }) = value {
                 if info == console {
-                    let x = parse_code_blocks(&literal).finish();
-                    println!("{:#?}", x);
-                    let parsed = parse_code_blocks(&literal)
+                    let (_, commands) = parse_code_blocks(&literal)
                         .finish()
                         .expect("Anything in `console` should be parseable as a command");
-                    println!("{:#?}", parsed);
-                    cuts.extend(parsed.1);
+                    println!("Found command to run: {:#?}", commands);
+                    cuts.extend(commands);
                 }
             }
         });