diff etc/NEWS @ 35680:1a6073992224

*** empty log message ***

--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon Jan 29 12:36:52 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Jan 29 13:31:47 2001 +0000
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 group.
 
 ** The user option `backward-delete-char-untabify-method' controls the
-behaviour of `backward-delete-char-untabify'.  [This change was made
+behavior of `backward-delete-char-untabify'.  [This change was made
 in Emacs 20.3 but not mentioned then.]
 
 ** The new user-option `confirm-kill-emacs' can be customized to
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@
 fraction of the window's height from the top of the window.
 
 When scrolling down because point is below the window end, if the
-value of the buffer-local variable `scroll-down-aggessively' is a
+value of the buffer-local variable `scroll-down-aggressively' is a
 number, Emacs chooses a new window start so that point ends up that
 fraction of the window's height from the bottom of the window.
 
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@
 +++
 *** Unless the file is under version control the search for a file's
 version number is performed based on regular expressions from
-`change-log-version-number-regexp-list' which can be cutomized.
+`change-log-version-number-regexp-list' which can be customized.
 Version numbers are only found in the first 10 percent of a file.
 
 *** Change Log mode now defines its own faces for font-lock highlighting.
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@
 *** The new function `font-lock-remove-keywords' can be used to remove
 font-lock keywords from the current buffer or from a specific major mode.
 
-*** Multiline patterns are now supported.  Modes using this, should
+*** Multi-line patterns are now supported.  Modes using this, should
 set font-lock-multiline to t in their font-lock-defaults.
 
 *** `font-lock-syntactic-face-function' allows major-modes to choose
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@
 ** Shell script mode changes.
 
 Shell script mode (sh-script) can now indent scripts for shells
-derived from sh and rc.  The indentation style is customizeable, and
+derived from sh and rc.  The indentation style is customizable, and
 sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style.
 
 ** Etags changes.
@@ -1830,7 +1830,7 @@
 by visiting a CVS administrative directory (with a prefix argument)
 provides an alternative interface to VC-dired for CVS.  It comes with
 `log-view-mode' to view RCS and SCCS logs and `log-edit-mode' used to
-enter checkin log messages.
+enter check-in log messages.
 
 +++
 *** The new package called `woman' allows to browse Unix man pages
@@ -2032,8 +2032,8 @@
 file list can be displayed:
 
 - organized by major modes, directories or user defined rules.
-- sorted by file pathes, file names, ascending or descending.
-- showing pathes relative to the current default-directory
+- sorted by file paths, file names, ascending or descending.
+- showing paths relative to the current default-directory
 
 The `recentf-filter-changer' menu filter function allows to
 dynamically change the menu appearance.
@@ -2232,12 +2232,12 @@
 
 - Function: remove ELT SEQ
 
-Return a copy of SEQ with all occurences of ELT removed.  SEQ must be
+Return a copy of SEQ with all occurrences of ELT removed.  SEQ must be
 a list, vector, or string.  The comparison is done with `equal'.
 
 - Function: remq ELT LIST
 
-Return a copy of LIST with all occurences of ELT removed.  The
+Return a copy of LIST with all occurrences of ELT removed.  The
 comparison is done with `eq'.
 
 +++
@@ -2488,7 +2488,7 @@
 Optional arguments BEG and END default to `point-min' and `point-max'
 respectively.
 
-If region ends with a newline, ignore it unless optinal third argument
+If region ends with a newline, ignore it unless optional third argument
 COUNT-FINAL-NEWLINE is non-nil.
 
 The optional fourth argument WINDOW specifies the window used for
@@ -2639,7 +2639,7 @@
 +++
 ** Regular expressions now support intervals \{n,m\} as well as
 Perl's shy-groups \(?:...\) and non-greedy *? +? and ?? operators.
-Also backreferences like \2 are now considered as an error if the
+Also back-references like \2 are now considered as an error if the
 corresponding subgroup does not exist (or is not closed yet).
 Previously it would have been silently turned into `2' (ignoring the `\').
 
@@ -3270,10 +3270,10 @@
 doesn't exist.
 
 Setting `face-font-registry-alternatives' allows the user to specify
-all alternative font registry names to try for a face speciying a
+all alternative font registry names to try for a face specifying a
 registry.
 
-Please note that the iterpretations of the above two variables are
+Please note that the interpretations of the above two variables are
 slightly different.
 
 Setting face-ignored-fonts allows the user to ignore specific fonts.
@@ -3548,7 +3548,7 @@
 the variable `minibuffer-prompt-properties', and turn on the
 `Inviolable' option.
 
-The function minubuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the
+The function minibuffer-prompt-end returns the current position of the
 end of the minibuffer prompt, if the minibuffer is current.
 Otherwise, it returns zero.
 
@@ -3734,7 +3734,7 @@
 the image, so that the background of a frame is visible behind the
 image.  If BG is not specified, or if BG is t, determine the
 background color of the image by looking at the 4 corners of the
-image, assuming the most frequently occuring color from the corners is
+image, assuming the most frequently occurring color from the corners is
 the background color of the image.  Otherwise, BG must be a list `(RED
 GREEN BLUE)' specifying the color to assume for the background of the
 image.
@@ -3861,7 +3861,7 @@
 `:index INDEX'
 
 INDEX must be an integer >= 0.  Load image number INDEX from a
-multi-image GIF file.  An error is signalled if INDEX is too large.
+multi-image GIF file.  An error is signaled if INDEX is too large.
 
 This could be used to implement limited support for animated GIFs.
 For example, the following function displays a multi-image GIF file
@@ -4305,7 +4305,7 @@
 All display specifications can be conditionalized.  If a specification
 has the form `(:when CONDITION . SPEC)', the specification SPEC
 applies only when CONDITION yields a non-nil value when evaluated.
-During evaluattion, point is temporarily set to the end position of
+During evaluation, point is temporarily set to the end position of
 the text having the `display' property.
 
 The normal specification consisting of SPEC only is equivalent to
@@ -4744,7 +4744,7 @@
 If you used this function in your initialization files, you must
 rewrite them to use `face-spec-set' instead.
 
-*** Cancelling now uses the current select method.  Symbolic prefix
+*** Canceling now uses the current select method.  Symbolic prefix
 `a' forces normal posting method.
 
 *** New command to translate M******** sm*rtq**t*s into proper text
@@ -4917,7 +4917,7 @@
 
 ** The new function file-attributes-lessp is a helper function for
 sorting the list generated by directory-files-and-attributes.  It
-accepts two arguments, each a list of a file name and its atttributes.
+accepts two arguments, each a list of a file name and its attributes.
 It compares the file names of each according to string-lessp and
 returns the result.
 
@@ -4973,7 +4973,7 @@
 region is preceded or followed by non-ASCII codes, inserting or
 deleting at the head or the end of the region may signal this error:
 
-    Byte combining across boundary of accessible buffer text inhibitted
+    Byte combining across boundary of accessible buffer text inhibited
 
 This is to avoid some bytes being combined together into a character
 across the boundary.
@@ -5621,7 +5621,7 @@
 
 *** Loading vcursor now does not define keys by default, as this is
 generally a bad side effect.  Use M-x customize to set
-vcursor-key-bindings to t to restore the old behaviour.
+vcursor-key-bindings to t to restore the old behavior.
 
 *** vcursor-auto-disable can be `copy', which turns off copying from the
 vcursor, but doesn't disable it, after any non-vcursor command.
@@ -5689,7 +5689,7 @@
 
 *** Many more labeled LaTeX environments are recognized by default.
 
-The builtin command list now covers all the standard LaTeX commands,
+The built-in command list now covers all the standard LaTeX commands,
 and all of the major packages included in the LaTeX distribution.
 
 Also, RefTeX now understands the \appendix macro and changes