From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 1476@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:48:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skp6jfyz.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001601c954d2$1362b0b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:02:39 -0800")
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:02:39 -0800 "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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.
Code is probably not as liable to influence spelling as documentation,
but FWIW:
-*- mode: grep; default-directory: "/Users/steve/cvsroot/emacs/" -*-
Grep started at Wed Dec 3 00:40:12
find . \( -path \*/SCCS -o -path \*/RCS -o -path \*/CVS -o -path \*/MCVS -o -path \*/.svn -o -path \*/.git -o -path \*/.hg -o -path \*/.bzr -o -path \*/_MTN -o -path \*/_darcs -o -path \*/\{arch\} \) -prune -o -type f \( -name \* \) -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -i -nH -e writeable
./etc/NEWS.21:1682:"cvs edit" to make files writeable; it defaults to `t'. (This option
./info/emacs-5:5371:could apply settings to an unwriteable directory this way:
./info/emacs-5:5373: (dir-locals-set-class-variables 'unwriteable-directory
./info/emacs-5:5377: "/usr/include/" 'unwriteable-directory)
./lisp/erc/ChangeLog.03:840: (erc-directory-writeable-p): create directory if it doesn't exist, check if
./lisp/erc/ChangeLog.03:841: it's writeable
./lisp/erc/erc-log.el:317:is writeable (it will be created as necessary) and
Binary file ./lisp/erc/erc-log.elc matches
./lisp/loaddefs.el:9236:is writeable (it will be created as necessary) and
./lisp/ChangeLog.10:2443: (gdb-display-end): Only make buffer writeable temporarily.
./lisp/ChangeLog.3:1908: them without locking the few that should stay writeable.
./lisp/ChangeLog.3:2281: (vc-checkout-writeable-buffer-hook): New var.
./lisp/ChangeLog.8:5519: writeable with "cvs edit", call "cvs unedit" to undo that.
Binary file ./lisp/vc-hooks.elc matches
./lisp/progmodes/cc-defs.el:409:known to be writeable. That way, these text properties remain set
Binary file ./lisp/progmodes/cc-defs.elc matches
./lisp/progmodes/cpp.el:104: (const :tag "False branch writeable" nil)
./lisp/progmodes/cpp.el:105: (const :tag "Both branches writeable" both))))
Binary file ./lisp/progmodes/cpp.elc matches
./lisp/files.el:245:file is being saved is not writeable, Emacs may ignore a non-nil value
./lisp/files.el:262:itself writeable, then error instead of saving in some
./lisp/generic-x.el:1315: "DIR_WRITEABLE"
./lisp/ldefs-boot.el:9227:is writeable (it will be created as necessary) and
Binary file ./lisp/generic-x.elc matches
./lisp/vc-hooks.el:423: 'implicit FILES are always writeable, and checked out `implicitly'
./lisp/vc-svn.el:414:uses locally for temp files must also be writeable by you on that host.
Binary file ./lisp/files.elc matches
Binary file ./lisp/vc-svn.elc matches
./lisp/ChangeLog.13:14945: ldefs-boot.el, make sure loaddefs.el is writeable.
./doc/emacs/custom.texi:1309:example, you could apply settings to an unwriteable directory this
./doc/emacs/custom.texi:1313:(dir-locals-set-class-variables 'unwriteable-directory
./doc/emacs/custom.texi:1317: "/usr/include/" 'unwriteable-directory)
./ChangeLog:7146: trying to make final targets writeable first, since it won't
./src/ChangeLog.4:3398: (Ffile_writeable_p) [MSDOS]: Don't call access with file name ending
./src/ChangeLog.6:3001: * sysdep.c (WRITABLE): Renamed from WRITEABLE.
Grep finished (matches found) at Wed Dec 3 00:40:35
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.20 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
2008-12-02 on escher
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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 [this message]
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 ` bug#1476: 23.0.60; spelling of (un)writeable should be (un)writable Lawrence Mitchell
2008-12-03 13:43 ` 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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