diff --git a/bashbot-lib.sh b/bashbot-lib.sh
index bdf8dac..f736213 100755
--- a/bashbot-lib.sh
+++ b/bashbot-lib.sh
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@
 #    bot_id="[insert your bot_id]"
 # 3. the following files to read and write from
 #    updates.txt
-#    sentmessages.txt
-#    callbacks.txt
-#    pay attention to the trailing forward slash
+#    sentmsgs.txt
+#    delmsgs.txt
 # 4. (optional) a directory for the bot's files as
 #    bot_tmpdir="/some/path/"
 #    pay attention to the trailing forward slash
@@ -20,6 +19,7 @@
 # IMPORTANT: this library uses the getUpdates method with
 #            tcp_keepalive,NOT webhooks
 
+# attempts to grab the last update's update_id and prints it to stdout
 calc_offset() {
   local current="$(bc -l <<< "$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}updates.txt" | \
                    grep -om1 "\"update_id\":[0-9]\+" | \
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ calc_offset() {
   [ ! -z "${current}" ] && printf "%d" "${current}"
 }
 
+# captures output of calc_offset to use as offset and fetches a single update with that offset
+# uses tcp_keepalive method for 300 seconds, but telegram only keeps the connection open for 60 seconds
+# prints result of fetching update if not empty and formats it for better use with the other functions
 getupd() {
   local offset="$(calc_offset)"
   local update="$(curl -sX GET --keepalive-time 300 "${api_url}getUpdates" -d "offset=${offset}" \
@@ -50,6 +53,7 @@ getchat_id() {
    "\"chat\":{\"id\":-\?[0-9]\+" | grep -om1 "\-\?[0-9]\+"
 }
 
+# makes decoding emojis possible, important for sending them too
 utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode() {
   # shamelessly stolen from stackoverflow
   local out="$1"
@@ -173,17 +177,30 @@ replymsg() {
   [ ! -z "${sentmsg}" ] && sed 's/^{"ok":false.*\|^{"ok":true,"result":{\|}$//g'\
   <<< "${sentmsg}" >> "${bot_tmpdir}sentmsgs.txt"
 }
-# TODO
-#editmsg() {
-#  curl -sX GET "${api_url}editMessageText" -d "chat_id=${1}" -d "message_id=${2}" \
-#   -d "text=${3}"
-#}
-#
-#delmsg() {
-#  curl -sX GET "${api_url}deleteMessage" -d "chat_id=${1}"\
-#  -d "message_id=${2}"
-#}
 
+# $1 is target chat_id
+# $2 is target msg_id
+# $3 is text
+# $4 is inline keyboard (optional)
+editmsg() {
+  local editmsg
+  [ -z "${3}" ] && editmsg="$(curl -sX GET "${api_url}editMessageText" -d "chat_id=${1}" -d "message_id=${2}" \
+   -d "text=${3}")" || editmsg="$(curl -sX GET "${api_url}editMessageText" -d "chat_id=${1}" -d "message_id=${2}" \
+   -d "text=${3}" -d "reply_markup=${4}")"
+  [ ! -z "${editmsg}" ] && sed 's/^{"ok":false.*\|^{"ok":true,"result":{\|}$//g'\
+  <<< "${editmsg}" >> "${bot_tmpdir}sentmsgs.txt"
+}
+
+# $1 is target chat_id
+# $2 is target msg_id
+delmsg() {
+  local delmsg
+  delmsg="$(curl -sX GET "${api_url}deleteMessage" -d "chat_id=${1}"\
+  -d "message_id=${2}")"
+  [ ! -z "${delmsg}" ] && printf "deleted message %s from chat %s\n" "${2}" "${1}" >> "${bot_tmpdir}delmsgs.txt"
+}
+
+# $1 is the name of a bash associative array to be filled with the message contents
 getmsg_content(){
   local -n _REF="${1}"
   _REF[user_id]="$(getusr_id "${2}")"