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diff --git a/lib/MooseX/Getopt.pm b/lib/MooseX/Getopt.pm
index cc2e19a..f78a7ac 100644
--- a/lib/MooseX/Getopt.pm
+++ b/lib/MooseX/Getopt.pm
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ specified by the C<--configfile> option (or the default you've
 given for the configfile attribute) for you.
 
 Options specified in multiple places follow the following
-precendence order: commandline overrides configfile, which
+precedence order: commandline overrides configfile, which
 overrides explicit new_with_options parameters.
 
 =head2 Supported Type Constraints
@@ -195,16 +195,19 @@ If L<Getopt::Long/GetOptions> fails (due to invalid arguments),
 C<new_with_options> will throw an exception.
 
 If L<Getopt::Long::Descriptive> is installed and any of the following
-command line params are passed, the program will exit with usage 
-information. You can add descriptions for each option by including a
+command line params are passed, the program will exit with usage
+information (and the option's state will be stored in the help_flag
+attribute). You can add descriptions for each option by including a
 B<documentation> option for each attribute to document.
 
+  -?
   --?
+  -h
   --help
   --usage
 
 If you have L<Getopt::Long::Descriptive> the C<usage> param is also passed to
-C<new>.
+C<new> as the usage option.
 
 =method B<ARGV>
 
@@ -217,8 +220,51 @@ This accessor contains an arrayref of leftover C<@ARGV> elements that
 L<Getopt::Long> did not parse.  Note that the real C<@ARGV> is left
 un-mangled.
 
+B<Important>: By default, L<Getopt::Long> will reject unrecognized I<options>
+(that is, options that do not correspond with attributes using the Getopt
+trait). To disable this, and allow options to also be saved in C<extra_argv> (for example to pass along to another class's C<new_with_options>), you can either enable the
+C<pass_through> option of L<Getopt::Long> for your class:  C<< use Getopt::Long
+qw(:config pass_through); >> or specify a value for L<MooseX::Getopt::GLD>'s C<getopt_conf> parameter.
+
+=method B<usage>
+
+This accessor contains the L<Getopt::Long::Descriptive::Usage> object (if
+L<Getopt::Long::Descriptive> is used).
+
+=method B<help_flag>
+
+This accessor contains the boolean state of the --help, --usage and --?
+options (true if any of these options were passed on the command line).
+
+=method B<print_usage_text>
+
+This method is called internally when the C<help_flag> state is true.
+It prints the text from the C<usage> object (see above) to stdout and then the
+program terminates normally.  You can apply a method modification (see
+L<Moose::Manual::MethodModifiers>) if different behaviour is desired, for
+example to include additional text.
+
 =method B<meta>
 
 This returns the role meta object.
 
+=method B<process_argv (%params)>
+
+This does most of the work of C<new_with_options>, analyzing the parameters
+and argv, except for actually calling the constructor. It returns a
+L<MooseX::Getopt::ProcessedArgv> object. C<new_with_options> uses this
+method internally, so modifying this method via subclasses/roles will affect
+C<new_with_options>.
+
+=head2 More Customization Options
+
+See L<Getopt::Long/Configuring Getopt::Long> for many other customizations you
+can make to how options are parsed. Simply C<use Getopt::Long qw(:config
+other_options...)> in your class to set these.
+
 =cut
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<MooseX::Getopt::Usage>, an extension to generate man pages, with colour
+