diff --git a/libmuguile/mu-guile-msg.c b/libmuguile/mu-guile-msg.c
index 9db5e219..c9e4c347 100644
--- a/libmuguile/mu-guile-msg.c
+++ b/libmuguile/mu-guile-msg.c
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ mu_guile_msg_load_current (const char *path)
 	}
 	
 	msgsmob = mu_guile_msg_to_scm (msg);
-	scm_c_define ("mu:current", msgsmob); 
+	scm_c_define ("mu:current-msg", msgsmob); 
 
 	return TRUE;
 }
diff --git a/toys/muile/README b/toys/muile/README
index de4b7e71..93eca2c2 100644
--- a/toys/muile/README
+++ b/toys/muile/README
@@ -70,8 +70,17 @@
    (see the documentation on --muhome in the mu-find manpage).
 
    And there is --msg=<path> where you specify some particular message file;
-   it will be available as 'mu:current' in the guile (muile) environment.
+   it will be available as 'mu:current-msg' in the guile (muile) environment. For
+   example:
 
+   ,----
+   | ./muile --msg=~/Maildir/inbox/cur/1311310172_1234:2,S 
+   |  [...]
+   | scheme@(guile-user)> mu:current-msg
+   | $1 = #<msg /home/djcb/Maildir/inbox/cur/1311310172_1234:2,S>
+   | scheme@(guile-user)> (mu:msg:size mu:current-msg)
+   | $2 = 7206
+   `----
 
 ** What about searching messages in the database?
 
diff --git a/toys/muile/muile.cc b/toys/muile/muile.cc
index f9bd33d3..d55d8abf 100644
--- a/toys/muile/muile.cc
+++ b/toys/muile/muile.cc
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ muile_config_new (int *argcp, char ***argvp)
 		{"muhome", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &opts->muhome,
 		 "specify an alternative mu directory", NULL},
 		{"msg", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &opts->msgpath,
-		 "specify path to a message to load as (mu:msg:current)", NULL},
+		 "specify path to a message to load as mu:current-msg)", NULL},
 		{NULL, 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, NULL, NULL, NULL}/* sentinel */
 	};