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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-08-05 13:31:10 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-08-05 13:35:13 -0700
commit92e5b41c7c5898820356fc66456804a45bbe7852 (patch)
treeb4f3858e4f3e55078a57f5f40c024d7a773952f1 /doc
parent6a9d967048f489bea8c716eb7b5be2c582b480bb (diff)
Spelling and minor grammar fixes
* test/file-organization.org: Rename from test/file-organisation.org.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/lispref/windows.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/misc/ses.texi28
-rw-r--r--doc/misc/tramp.texi2
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/windows.texi b/doc/lispref/windows.texi
index 015c557ef6..ad0c3237e6 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/windows.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/windows.texi
@@ -2426,7 +2426,7 @@ If @var{alist} contains a @code{mode} entry, its value is a major mode
window is a candidate if it displays a buffer that derives from one of
the given modes.
-The behaviour is also controlled by entries for
+The behavior is also controlled by entries for
@code{inhibit-same-window}, @code{reusable-frames} and
@code{inhibit-switch-frame} as is done in the function
@code{display-buffer-reuse-window}.
diff --git a/doc/misc/ses.texi b/doc/misc/ses.texi
index 1c5070b38a..84d2cc77c0 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ses.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/ses.texi
@@ -567,10 +567,10 @@ s-expression (using @code{ses-prin1}), centered and surrounded by
@code{#} filling.
@end itemize
-Another precaution to take is to avoid stack-overflow (due to a
-printer function indefintely recursively re-calling itself). This can
-happen mistakenly when you use a local printer as a column printer,
-and this local printer implicitely call the current column printer, so
+Another precaution to take is to avoid stack overflow due to a
+printer function calling itself indefinitely. This mistake can
+happen when you use a local printer as a column printer,
+and this local printer implicitly calls the current column printer, so it
will call itself recursively. Imagine for instance that you want to
create some local printer @code{=fill} that would center the content
of a cell and surround it by equal signs @code{=}, and you do it this
@@ -583,12 +583,12 @@ way:
(t (ses-center x 0 ?=))))
@end lisp
-Because @code{=fill} uses standard printer @code{ses-center} without
-passing explicitely any printer to it, @code{ses-center} will call the
-current column printer if any or the spreadsheet default printer
-otherwise. So using @code{=fill} as a column printer will result in a
-stack overflow in this column. SES does not make any check for that,
-you just have to be careful. For instance re-write @code{=fill} like
+Because @code{=fill} uses the standard printer @code{ses-center} without
+explicitly passing any printer to it, @code{ses-center} will call the
+current column printer if any, or the spreadsheet default printer
+otherwise. So using @code{=fill} as a column printer will result in a
+stack overflow in this column. SES does not check for that;
+you just have to be careful. For instance, re-write @code{=fill} like
this:
@lisp
@@ -599,11 +599,11 @@ this:
(t (ses-center-span x ?# 'ses-prin1))))
@end lisp
-The code above applies the @code{=} filling only to strings, it also
+The code above applies the @code{=} filling only to strings; it also
surrounds the string by one space on each side before filling with
-@code{=} signs. So string @samp{Foo} will be displayed like @samp{@w{===
-Foo ===}} in an 11 character wide column. Anything else than empty cell
-or non string is displayed like errouneous by using @code{#} filling.
+@code{=} signs. So the string @samp{Foo} will be displayed like @samp{@w{===
+Foo ===}} in an 11 character wide column. Anything other than an empty cell
+or a non-string is displayed as an error by using @code{#} filling.
@node Clearing cells
@section Clearing cells
diff --git a/doc/misc/tramp.texi b/doc/misc/tramp.texi
index e8c181b229..2c41dddd1b 100644
--- a/doc/misc/tramp.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/tramp.texi
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ be populated in your @command{Online Accounts} application outside Emacs.
Since Google Drive uses cryptic blob file names internally,
@value{tramp} works with the @code{display-name} of the files. This
-could produce unexpected behaviour in case two files in the same
+could produce unexpected behavior in case two files in the same
directory have the same @code{display-name}, such a situation must be avoided.
@item @option{obex}