From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lawrence Mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:03:36 +0000 Organization: funfunfun Message-ID: References: <001601c954d2$1362b0b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Lawrence Mitchell , 1476@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228302641 26750 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2008 11:10:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 11:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 12:11:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7pdu-00062e-5g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:03:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hoXclaD7ZOg/pHf3U/RJBQM2/Cc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:10:16 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:22898 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23449 Archived-At: 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 -- Lawrence Mitchell