From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:03:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <?fnord?y3h6ljuxldvb.fsf@ID-97657.user.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001601c954d2$1362b0b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com
Drew Adams wrote:
> Emacs manual, node Directory Variables.
> Please change "unwriteable" to "unwritable".
> Not very important, since this is just an invented name in an example,
> but it can lead users to think that's the spelling and thus to look
> for such a term in the future. Googling shows that similar bugs have
> been logged for Scheme, Python, man pages, and elsewhere.
FWIW the OED says both are fine:
writable, a.
Also writeable.
Lawrence
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Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
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2008-12-02 23:02 ` bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable Drew Adams
2008-12-02 23:48 ` Stephen Berman
2008-12-03 3:35 ` bug#1476: marked as done (23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable) Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-12-03 11:03 ` Lawrence Mitchell [this message]
2008-12-03 13:43 ` bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable Drew Adams
2008-12-03 14:00 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2008-12-03 15:00 ` bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be(un)writable Drew Adams
2008-12-03 14:08 ` bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-03 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 15:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-03 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 14:13 ` Jason Rumney
2008-12-03 15:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-03 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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