[PATCH] Fix typos and improve consistency in ERC manual

[PATCH] Fix typos and improve consistency in ERC manual

[Christer Enfors]

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I've fixed a few typos and improved the consistency of how channels are
mentioned - replaced all occurrences of #channel with @samp{#channel},
except where #channel appears within quotes or elisp code.

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From 3db5d8e9e9876e95f8bb3f3433d8c76e9f51a2cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christer Enfors <christer.enfors@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 22:46:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos and improve consistency in ERC manual

---
 doc/misc/erc.texi | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/erc.texi b/doc/misc/erc.texi
index 7dbb5f0970..7d696421f7 100644
--- a/doc/misc/erc.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/erc.texi
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Top
 
 Getting Started
 
-* Sample Session::              Example of connecting to the #emacs channel
+* Sample Session::              Example of connecting to the @samp{#emacs} channel
 * Special Features::            Differences from standalone IRC clients
 
 Advanced Usage
@@ -159,14 +159,15 @@ Sample Session
 @section Sample Session
 
 This is an example ERC session which shows how to connect to the
-#emacs channel on Libera.Chat.  Another IRC channel on Libera.Chat
-that may be of interest is #erc, which is a channel where ERC users
-and developers hang out.  These channels used to live on the Freenode
-IRC network until June 2021, when they---along with the official IRC
-channels of the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, and many
-other free software communities---relocated to the Libera.Chat network
-in the aftermath of changes in governance and policies of Freenode in
-May and June 2021.  GNU and FSF's announcements about this are at
+@samp{#emacs} channel on Libera.Chat.  Another IRC channel on
+Libera.Chat that may be of interest is @samp{#erc}, which is a channel
+where ERC users and developers hang out.  These channels used to live
+on the Freenode IRC network until June 2021, when they---along with
+the official IRC channels of the GNU Project, the Free Software
+Foundation, and many other free software communities---relocated to
+the Libera.Chat network in the aftermath of changes in governance and
+policies of Freenode in May and June 2021.  GNU and FSF's
+announcements about this are at
 @uref{https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00005.html},
 @uref{https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00007.html},
 and
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ Sample Session
 
 @item Connect to Libera.Chat
 
-Run @kbd{M-x erc}.  Use ``irc.libera.chat as the IRC server, ``6667''
+Run @kbd{M-x erc}.  Use ``irc.libera.chat as the IRC server'', ``6667''
 as the port, and choose a nickname.
 
 @item Get used to the interface
@@ -291,7 +292,7 @@ Special Features
 If the connection goes away at some point, ERC will try to reconnect
 automatically.  If it fails to reconnect, and you want to try to
 manually reestablish the connection at some later point, switch to an
-ERC  buffer and run the @code{/RECONNECT} command.
+ERC buffer and run the @code{/RECONNECT} command.
 
 @end itemize
 
@@ -958,7 +959,7 @@ History
 So we happily hacked away on ERC, and soon after (September 2001)
 released the next "stable" version, 2.1.
 
-Most of the development of the new ERC happened on #emacs on
+Most of the development of the new ERC happened on @samp{#emacs} on
 irc.openprojects.net.  Over time, many people contributed code, ideas,
 bugfixes, and a lot of alpha/beta/gamma testing.
 
-- 
2.25.1

bug#52318: [PATCH] Fix typos and improve consistency in ERC manual

[Stefan Kangas]

close 52318 28.1
thanks

Christer Enfors <christer.enfors@gmail.com> writes:

> I've fixed a few typos and improved the consistency of how channels
> are mentioned - replaced all occurrences of #channel with @samp
> {#channel}, except where #channel appears within quotes or elisp code.

Thanks for the patch!  Pushed to the emacs-28 branch with an added
ChangeLog entry:

    Fix typos and improve consistency in ERC manual

    * doc/misc/erc.texi (Sample Session, Special Features, History): Fix
    typos and improve consistency.  (Bug#52318)