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Minor spelling and grammar corrections.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
date Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:29:40 +0000
parents 7f23d458e897
children 69c58f2f2634
files man/ack.texi man/ada-mode.texi man/autotype.texi man/calc.texi man/cc-mode.texi man/ediff.texi man/emacs-mime.texi man/emacs.texi man/eshell.texi man/faq.texi man/files.texi man/forms.texi man/gnus.texi man/idlwave.texi man/maintaining.texi man/message.texi man/pcl-cvs.texi man/reftex.texi man/sc.texi man/tramp.texi man/woman.texi
diffstat 21 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/ack.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/ack.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@
 
 @itemize @minus
 @item
-@file{easymeny.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus,
+@file{easymenu.el}, a facility for defining Emacs menus,
 @item
 @file{menu-bar.el}, the Emacs menu bar support code,
 @item
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@
 
 @item
 Tom Tromey and Chris Lindblad wrote @file{tcl.el}, a major mode for
-editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpeter as an Emacs
+editing Tcl/Tk source files and running a Tcl interpreter as an Emacs
 subprocess.
 
 @item
--- a/man/ada-mode.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/ada-mode.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
                                      defined in your application
 * File Browser::                  Easy access to your files
 * Automatic Smart Indentation::   Indenting your code automatically as you type
-* Formatting Parameter Lists::    Formating subprograms parameter lists
+* Formatting Parameter Lists::    Formatting subprograms' parameter lists
                                      automatically
 * Automatic Casing::              Adjusting the case of words automatically
 * Statement Templates::           Inserting code templates
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 switching between spec and body files with eventually
 auto-generation of body files,
 @item
-automatic formating of subprograms parameter lists.
+automatic formatting of subprograms' parameter lists.
 @item
 automatic smart indentation according to Ada syntax,
 @item
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@
 place.
 
 You can activate  this mode by typing @key{M-x  speedbar} in the editor.
-This  will open  a new  frame. A  better way  might be  to  assicate the
+This  will open  a new  frame. A  better way  might be  to  associate the
 following key binding
 
 @example
--- a/man/autotype.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/autotype.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
 source files insert the usual header, with a copyright of your
 environment variable @env{$ORGANIZATION} or else the FSF, and prompt
 for valid keywords describing the contents.  Files in a @file{bin}
-directory for which Emacs could determine no specialised mode
+directory for which Emacs could determine no specialized mode
 (@pxref{(emacs)Choosing Modes}) are set to Shell script mode.
 
 @findex define-auto-insert
--- a/man/calc.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/calc.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -2330,7 +2330,7 @@
 with a single capital letter showing which letter you press to get
 that command.  We have used @kbd{t n}, @kbd{t p}, @kbd{t ]}, and
 @kbd{t y} so far.  The @samp{[MORE]} means you can press @kbd{?}
-again to see more @kbd{t}-prefix comands.  Notice that the commands
+again to see more @kbd{t}-prefix commands.  Notice that the commands
 are roughly divided (by semicolons) into related groups.
 
 When you are in the help display for a prefix key, the prefix is
@@ -4485,7 +4485,7 @@
 infinity we had earlier.  If you work it out, you might expect
 the answer to be @i{-72} for this.  But the 72 has been completely
 lost next to the infinities; by the time we compute @w{@samp{inf - inf}}
-the finite difference between them, if any, is indetectable.
+the finite difference between them, if any, is undetectable.
 So we say the result is @dfn{indeterminate}, which Calc writes
 with the symbol @code{nan} (for Not A Number).
 
@@ -8236,14 +8236,8 @@
 @end group
 @end smallexample
 
-@ifinfo
-@noindent
-Et voila, September 13, 1991 is a Friday.
-@end ifinfo
-@tex
-\noindent
-{\it Et voil{\accent"12 a}}, September 13, 1991 is a Friday.
-@end tex
+@noindent
+Et voil@`a, September 13, 1991 is a Friday.
 
 @smallexample
 @group
@@ -10071,7 +10065,7 @@
 @noindent
 @cindex Stack basics
 @c [fix-tut RPN Calculations and the Stack]
-Calc uses RPN notation.  If you are not familar with RPN, @pxref{RPN
+Calc uses RPN notation.  If you are not familiar with RPN, @pxref{RPN
 Tutorial}.
 
 To add the numbers 1 and 2 in Calc you would type the keys:
@@ -11130,7 +11124,7 @@
 decimal point.  Decreasing the precision below 12 may cause the
 time part of a date form to become inaccurate.  This can also happen
 if astronomically high years are used, though this will not be an
-issue in everyday (or even everymillenium) use.  Note that date
+issue in everyday (or even everymillennium) use.  Note that date
 forms without times are stored as exact integers, so roundoff is
 never an issue for them.
 
@@ -17174,7 +17168,7 @@
 from 3 a.m.@: to 4 a.m.  At the end of daylight savings time, the
 hour from 1 a.m.@: to 2 a.m.@: repeats itself; converting a date/time
 form that falls in in this hour results in a time value for the first
-manifestion of that time (@emph{not} the one that occurs one hour later).
+manifestation of that time (@emph{not} the one that occurs one hour later).
 
 If @code{math-daylight-savings-hook} is @code{nil}, then the
 daylight savings adjustment is always taken to be zero.
@@ -17971,7 +17965,7 @@
 @cindex @code{phi} variable
 @cindex Phi, golden ratio
 @cindex Golden ratio
-One miscellanous command is shift-@kbd{P} (@code{calc-pi}), which pushes
+One miscellaneous command is shift-@kbd{P} (@code{calc-pi}), which pushes
 the value of @c{$\pi$}
 @cite{pi} (at the current precision) onto the stack.  With the
 Hyperbolic flag, it pushes the value @cite{e}, the base of natural logarithms.
@@ -19927,7 +19921,7 @@
 are not ``identical.''  Variables are treated like plain symbols without
 attached values by the set operations; subtracting the set @samp{[b]}
 from @samp{[a, b]} always yields the set @samp{[a]} even though if
-the variables @samp{a} and @samp{b} both equalled 17, you might
+the variables @samp{a} and @samp{b} both equaled 17, you might
 expect the answer @samp{[]}.
 
 If a set contains interval forms, then it is assumed to be a set of
@@ -23379,7 +23373,7 @@
 is not turned on.  (If you work with symbolic mode on, recall that the
 @kbd{N} (@code{calc-eval-num}) key is a handy way to reevaluate the
 formula on the stack with symbolic mode temporarily off.)  Naturally,
-@kbd{a P} can only provide numerical roots if the polynomial coefficents
+@kbd{a P} can only provide numerical roots if the polynomial coefficients
 are all numbers (real or complex).
 
 @node Solving Systems of Equations, Decomposing Polynomials, Multiple Solutions, Solving Equations
@@ -24145,7 +24139,7 @@
 where it has a minimum).  But there @emph{will} be a difference
 in the estimated errors of the coefficients reported by @kbd{H a F}.
 
-Consult any text on statistical modelling of data for a discussion
+Consult any text on statistical modeling of data for a discussion
 of where these error estimates come from and how they should be
 interpreted.
 
@@ -26017,7 +26011,7 @@
 matches anything else by binding the whole expression to @cite{x} and
 zero to @cite{y}.  The other operators above work similarly.@refill
 
-For general miscellanous functions, the default value @code{def}
+For general miscellaneous functions, the default value @code{def}
 must be specified.  Optional arguments are dropped starting with
 the rightmost one during matching.  For example, the pattern
 @samp{f(opt(a,0), b, opt(c,b))} will match @samp{f(b)}, @samp{f(a,b)},
@@ -26499,7 +26493,7 @@
 will be careful to bind @samp{a} to the second argument of @code{f}
 before testing the first argument.  If Calc had tried to match the
 first argument of @code{f} first, the results would have been
-disasterous:  Since @code{a} was unbound so far, the pattern @samp{a}
+disastrous: since @code{a} was unbound so far, the pattern @samp{a}
 would have matched anything at all, and the pattern @samp{!!!a}
 therefore would @emph{not} have matched anything at all!
 
@@ -27050,7 +27044,7 @@
 be made simpler by squaring.  For example, applying this rule to
 @samp{2 / (sqrt(2) + 3)} yields @samp{6:7 - 2:7 sqrt(2)} (assuming
 Symbolic Mode has been enabled to keep the square root from being
-evaulated to a floating-point approximation).  This rule is also
+evaluated to a floating-point approximation).  This rule is also
 useful when working with symbolic complex numbers, e.g.,
 @samp{(a + b i) / (c + d i)}.
 
@@ -27903,7 +27897,7 @@
 @pindex calc-permanent-variable
 @cindex Storing variables
 @cindex Permanent variables
-@cindex @file{.emacs} file, veriables
+@cindex @file{.emacs} file, variables
 The @kbd{s p} (@code{calc-permanent-variable}) command saves a
 variable's value permanently in your @file{.emacs} file, so that its
 value will still be available in future Emacs sessions.  You can
@@ -29874,7 +29868,7 @@
 @kindex M-# j
 @pindex calc-embedded-select
 The @kbd{M-# j} (@code{calc-embedded-select}) command provides an
-easy way to operate on assigments.  It is just like @kbd{M-# e},
+easy way to operate on assignments.  It is just like @kbd{M-# e},
 except that if the enabled formula is an assignment, it uses
 @kbd{j 2} to select the righthand side.  If the enabled formula
 is an evaluates-to, it uses @kbd{j 1} to select the lefthand side.
@@ -31736,7 +31730,7 @@
 to a suitable range, namely, plus-or-minus @c{$\pi \over 4$}
 @cite{pi/4}.  Note that each
 test, and particularly the first comparison against 7, is designed so
-that small roundoff errors cannnot produce an infinite loop.  (Suppose
+that small roundoff errors cannot produce an infinite loop.  (Suppose
 we compared with @samp{(two-pi)} instead; if due to roundoff problems
 the modulo operator ever returned @samp{(two-pi)} exactly, an infinite
 recursion could result!)  We use modulo only for arguments that will
@@ -31911,7 +31905,7 @@
 structure.
 
 There is also a @code{rawnum} symbol, which is a combination of
-@code{raw} (returning a raw Calc object) and @code{num} (signalling
+@code{raw} (returning a raw Calc object) and @code{num} (signaling
 an error if that object is not a constant).
 
 You can pass a raw Calc object to @code{calc-eval} in place of a
--- a/man/cc-mode.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/cc-mode.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1891,7 +1891,7 @@
 none of the list elements return a non-@code{nil} value, then an offset
 of 0 (zero) is used@footnote{There is however a variable
 @code{c-strict-syntax-p} that, when set to non-@code{nil}, will cause an
-error to be signalled in that case.  It's now considered obsolete since
+error to be signaled in that case.  It's now considered obsolete since
 it doesn't work well with some of the alignment functions that now
 returns @code{nil} instead of zero to be more usable in lists.  You
 should therefore leave @code{c-strict-syntax-p} set to @code{nil}.}.
@@ -2301,7 +2301,7 @@
 @item
 @code{bsd} --- Also known as ``Allman style'' after Eric Allman.
 
-@cindex Whitesmith style
+@cindex Whitesmiths style
 @item
 @code{whitesmith} --- Popularized by the examples that came with
 Whitesmiths C, an early commercial C compiler.
@@ -4163,7 +4163,7 @@
 @findex c-lineup-whitesmith-in-block
 @findex lineup-whitesmith-in-block (c-)
 @item c-lineup-whitesmith-in-block
-Line up lines inside a block in Whitesmith style.  It's done in a way
+Line up lines inside a block in Whitesmiths style.  It's done in a way
 that works both when the opening brace hangs and when it doesn't.  E.g:
 @example
 @group
@@ -4305,7 +4305,7 @@
 however it is recognized that sometimes you need speed and can sacrifice
 some accuracy in indentation.  The file @file{cc-lobotomy.el} contains
 hacks that will ``dumb down'' @ccmode{} in some specific ways, making
-that trade-off of accurancy for speed.  I won't go into details of its
+that trade-off of accuracy for speed.  I won't go into details of its
 use here; you should read the comments at the top of the file, and look
 at the variable @code{cc-lobotomy-pith-list} for details.
 
--- a/man/ediff.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/ediff.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@
 dangerous, since you will always have the original contents of the file
 saved in another file that has the extension @file{.orig}.
 Furthermore, if the file is under version control, then you can always back
-out to one of the previous versions (see the section on Version Countrol in
-Emacs manual).
+out to one of the previous versions (see the section on Version Control in
+the Emacs manual).
 
 @code{ediff-patch-file} is careful about versions control: if the file
 to be patched is checked in, then Ediff will offer to check it out, because
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@
 In other situations, the currently highlighted region might be big and you
 might want to reconcile of them interactively.
 
-All of this can be done with the above comand, @kbd{=}, which
+All of this can be done with the above command, @kbd{=}, which
 compares regions within Ediff buffers.  Typing @kbd{=} creates a
 child Ediff session for comparing regions in buffers A, B, or
 C as follows.
--- a/man/emacs-mime.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/emacs-mime.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@
 
 @item charset
 The contents of the body of the part are to be encoded in the character
-set speficied (@samp{Content-Type}).
+set specified (@samp{Content-Type}).
 
 @item name
 Might be used to suggest a file name if the part is to be saved
--- a/man/emacs.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/emacs.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -982,8 +982,8 @@
 Glynn Clements, Andrew Csillag, Doug Cutting, Michael DeCorte, Gary
 Delp, Matthieu Devin, Eri Ding, Carsten Dominik, Scott Draves, Viktor
 Dukhovni, John Eaton, Rolf Ebert, Stephen Eglen, Torbj@"orn Einarsson,
-Tsugumoto Enami, Hans Henrik Eriksen, Michael Ernst, Ata Etemadi,
-Frederick Farnback, Fred Fish, Karl Fogel, Gary Foster, Noah Friedman,
+Tsugutomo Enami, Hans Henrik Eriksen, Michael Ernst, Ata Etemadi,
+Frederick Farnbach, Fred Fish, Karl Fogel, Gary Foster, Noah Friedman,
 Keith Gabryelski, Kevin Gallagher, Kevin Gallo, Howard Gayle, Stephen
 Gildea, David Gillespie, Bob Glickstein, Boris Goldowsky, Michelangelo
 Grigni, Michael Gschwind, Henry Guillaume, Doug Gwyn, Ken'ichi Handa,
--- a/man/eshell.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/eshell.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \input texinfo  @c -*-texinfo-*-
 
-@c "@(#)$Name:  $:$Id: eshell.texi,v 1.13 2002/06/17 11:50:12 kai Exp $"
+@c "@(#)$Name:  $:$Id: eshell.texi,v 1.14 2002/06/17 15:55:51 kai Exp $"
 
 @c Documentation for Eshell: The Emacs Shell.
 @c Copyright (C) 1999, 2000  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 @c your option) any later version.
 
 @c GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-@c WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warraonty of
+@c WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 @c MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 @c General Public License for more details.
 
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
 
 @item Using C-p and C-n with rebind gets into a locked state
 
-This happened a few times in Emacs 21, but has been unreproducable
+This happened a few times in Emacs 21, but has been unreproducible
 since.
 
 @item If an interactive process is currently running, @kbd{M-!} doesn't work
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@
 
 This would allow for an ``output translators'', that take a function to
 modify output with, and a target.  Devise a syntax that works well with
-pipes, and can accomodate multiple functions (i.e., @samp{>'(upcase
+pipes, and can accommodate multiple functions (i.e., @samp{>'(upcase
 regexp-quote)} or @samp{>'upcase}).
 
 @item Allow Eshell to read/write to/from standard input and output
--- a/man/faq.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/faq.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@
 @cindex Toolbar support
 Emacs 21 features a thorough rewrite of the display engine.  The new
 display engine supports variable-size fonts, images, and can play sounds
-on platforms which support that.  As a result, the visual appearence of
+on platforms which support that.  As a result, the visual appearance of
 Emacs, when it runs on a windowed display, is much more reminiscent of
 modern GUI programs, and includes 3D widgets (used for the mode line and
 the scroll bars), a configurable and extensible toolbar, tooltips
@@ -2595,7 +2595,7 @@
 @node Scrolling only one line, Replacing highlighted text, Turning on syntax highlighting, Common requests
 @section How can I force Emacs to scroll only one line when I move past the bottom of the screen?
 @cindex Scrolling only one line
-@cindex Reducing the increment when scrollng
+@cindex Reducing the increment when scrolling
 
 Place the following Lisp form in your @file{.emacs} file:
 
@@ -2609,7 +2609,7 @@
 @section How can I replace highlighted text with what I type?
 @cindex @code{delete-selection-mode}
 @cindex Replacing highlighted text
-@cindex Highlighing and replacing text
+@cindex Highlighting and replacing text
 
 Use @code{delete-selection-mode}, which you can start automatically by
 placing the following Lisp form in your @file{.emacs} file:
@@ -3512,7 +3512,7 @@
 @cindex Snail mail, ordering Emacs via
 @cindex Postal service, ordering Emacs via
 @cindex Distribution, retrieving Emacs 
-@cindex Internet, retreiving from
+@cindex Internet, retrieving from
 
 Look in the files @file{etc/DISTRIB} and @file{etc/FTP} for information
 on nearby archive sites and @file{etc/ORDERS} for mail orders.  If you
--- a/man/files.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/files.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -2646,7 +2646,7 @@
 
 @vindex vc-cvs-global-switches
   The variable @code{vc-cvs-global-switches} should be a string
-specifyng switches to pass to CVS for all CVS operations.
+specifying switches to pass to CVS for all CVS operations.
 
   When @code{vc-cvs-stay-local} is @code{t}, VC also makes local
 version backups, so that simple diff and revert operations are
--- a/man/forms.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/forms.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
 than @code{nil} (which it is, by default), the Emacs functions
 @code{scroll-up} and @code{scroll-down} will perform a
 @code{forms-next-record} and @code{forms-prev-record} when in forms
-mode.  So you can use your favourite page commands to page through the
+mode.  So you can use your favorite page commands to page through the
 data file.
 
 @vindex forms-forms-jump
--- a/man/gnus.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/gnus.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
 * Article Buttons::         Click on URLs, Message-IDs, addresses and the like.
 * Article Date::            Grumble, UT!
 * Article Signature::       What is a signature?
-* Article Miscellania::     Various other stuff.
+* Article Miscellanea::     Various other stuff.
 
 Alternative Approaches
 
@@ -6988,7 +6988,7 @@
 * Article Buttons::         Click on URLs, Message-IDs, addresses and the like.
 * Article Date::            Grumble, UT!
 * Article Signature::       What is a signature?
-* Article Miscellania::     Various other stuff.
+* Article Miscellanea::     Various other stuff.
 @end menu
 
 
@@ -7816,8 +7816,8 @@
 signature after all.
 
 
-@node Article Miscellania
-@subsection Article Miscellania
+@node Article Miscellanea
+@subsection Article Miscellanea
 
 @table @kbd
 @item A t
@@ -10486,8 +10486,8 @@
 @vindex nntp-server-opened-hook
 @cindex @sc{mode reader}
 @cindex authinfo
-@cindex authentification
-@cindex nntp authentification
+@cindex authentication
+@cindex nntp authentication
 @findex nntp-send-authinfo
 @findex nntp-send-mode-reader
 is run after a connection has been made.  It can be used to send
@@ -10706,7 +10706,7 @@
 @findex nntp-open-ssl-stream
 @item nntp-open-ssl-stream
 Opens a connection to a server over a @dfn{secure} channel.  To use this
-you must have SSLay installed
+you must have SSLeay installed
 (@uref{ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL}, and you also need
 @file{ssl.el} (from the W3 distribution, for instance).  You then
 define a server as follows:
@@ -16088,7 +16088,7 @@
         (,gnus-del-mark . -15)))
 @end lisp
 
-This is the default value.  If you have adaption on words enabled, every
+This is the default value.  If you adapt on words, every
 word that appears in subjects of articles marked with
 @code{gnus-read-mark} will result in a score rule that increase the
 score with 30 points.
@@ -16974,7 +16974,7 @@
 * Compilation::                How to speed Gnus up.
 * Mode Lines::                 Displaying information in the mode lines.
 * Highlighting and Menus::     Making buffers look all nice and cozy.
-* Buttons::                    Get tendonitis in ten easy steps!
+* Buttons::                    Get tendinitis in ten easy steps!
 * Daemons::                    Gnus can do things behind your back.
 * NoCeM::                      How to avoid spam and other fatty foods.
 * Undo::                       Some actions can be undone.
@@ -19890,7 +19890,7 @@
 been added.
 
 @item
-@code{nndoc} was rewritten to be easily extendable (@pxref{Document
+@code{nndoc} was rewritten to be easily extensible (@pxref{Document
 Server Internals}).
 
 @item
@@ -19997,7 +19997,7 @@
 mail before saving the mail (@pxref{Washing Mail}).
 
 @item
-Emphasized text can be properly fontisized:
+Emphasized text can be properly fontified:
 
 @end itemize
 
@@ -20423,7 +20423,7 @@
 @cindex ephemeral groups
 Most groups store data on what articles you have read.  @dfn{Ephemeral}
 groups are groups that will have no data stored---when you exit the
-group, it'll disappear into the aether.
+group, it'll disappear into the ether.
 
 @item solid groups
 @cindex solid groups
--- a/man/idlwave.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/idlwave.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@
 method exists in several classes, IDLWAVE queries for the class of the
 object, unless the class is already known through a text property on the
 @samp{->} operator (@pxref{Object Method Completion and Class
-Ambiguity}), or by having been explicity included in the call
+Ambiguity}), or by having been explicitly included in the call
 (e.g. @code{a->myclass::Foo}).
 
 @cindex Calling sequences
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@
 @emph{chaining}, and is characterized by chained method calls like
 @w{@code{self->MySuperClass::SetProperty,_EXTRA=e}}.
 
-IDLWAVE can accomodate this special synergy between class and keyword
+IDLWAVE can accommodate this special synergy between class and keyword
 inheritance: if @code{_EXTRA} or @code{_REF_EXTRA} are detected among a
 method's keyword parameters, all keywords of superclass versions of the
 method being considered are included in completion.  The completion
@@ -2053,7 +2053,7 @@
 @cindex Modification timestamp
 @cindex Header, for file documentation
 @cindex Timestamp, in doc header.
-@cindex Changelog, in doc header.
+@cindex ChangeLog, in doc header.
 
 @kindex C-c C-h
 @kindex C-c C-m
@@ -2627,7 +2627,7 @@
 or while composing a long command in the IDLWAVE shell.  In the latter
 case, the command is sent to the shell and its output is visible, but
 point remains unmoved in the command being composed --- you can inspect
-the contituents of a command you're building without interrupting the
+the constituents of a command you're building without interrupting the
 process of building it!  You can even print arbitrary expressions from
 older input or output further up in the shell window --- any expression,
 variable, number, or function you see can be examined.
--- a/man/maintaining.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/maintaining.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
 @code{\section}, @code{\subsection}, @code{\subsubsection},
 @code{\eqno}, @code{\label}, @code{\ref}, @code{\cite},
 @code{\bibitem}, @code{\part}, @code{\appendix}, @code{\entry},
-@code{\index}, @code{\def}, @code{\newcomand}, @code{\renewcommand},
+@code{\index}, @code{\def}, @code{\newcommand}, @code{\renewcommand},
 @code{\newenvironment} or @code{\renewenvironment} is a tag.@refill
 
 Other commands can make tags as well, if you specify them in the
--- a/man/message.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/message.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@
 is @emph{not} an abbreviation of the English word ``response'', but is
 Latin, and means ``in response to''.  Some illiterate nincompoops have
 failed to grasp this fact, and have ``internationalized'' their software
-to use abonimations like @samp{Aw: } (``antwort'') or @samp{Sv: }
+to use abominations like @samp{Aw: } (``antwort'') or @samp{Sv: }
 (``svar'') instead, which is meaningless and evil.  However, you may
 have to deal with users that use these evil tools, in which case you may
 set this variable to a regexp that matches these prefixes.  Myself, I
--- a/man/pcl-cvs.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/pcl-cvs.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \input texinfo  @c -*-texinfo-*-
 
-@c "@(#)$Name:  $:$Id: pcl-cvs.texi,v 1.14 2002/02/13 22:30:34 monnier Exp $"
+@c "@(#)$Name:  $:$Id: pcl-cvs.texi,v 1.15 2002/04/09 18:41:56 monnier Exp $"
 
 @c Documentation for the GNU Emacs CVS mode.
 @c Copyright (C) 1991,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,2000, 2001  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
 @file{pcl-cvs-xemacs.el}.@refill
 
 @item
-Leif Lonnblad contributed RCVS support (since superceded by the new
+Leif Lonnblad contributed RCVS support (since superseded by the new
 remote CVS support).
 
 @item
--- a/man/reftex.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/reftex.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1632,9 +1632,9 @@
 @samp{Einstein&&Bose} will match all articles which mention
 Bose-Einstein condensation, or which are co-authored by Bose and
 Einstein.  When entering the regular expression, you can complete on
-known citation keys.  RefTeX also offeres a default when prompting for a
+known citation keys.  RefTeX also offers a default when prompting for a
 regular expression.  This default is the word before the cursor or the
-word before the current @samp{\cite} comand.  Sometimes this may be a
+word before the current @samp{\cite} command.  Sometimes this may be a
 good search key.@refill
 
 @cindex @code{\bibliography}
@@ -3439,7 +3439,7 @@
 expression, scans the buffers with BibTeX entries (taken from the
 @code{\bibliography} command or a @code{thebibliography} environment)
 and offers the matching entries for selection.  The selected entry is
-formated according to @code{reftex-cite-format} and inserted into the
+formatted according to @code{reftex-cite-format} and inserted into the
 buffer.@refill @*
 When called with one or two @kbd{C-u} prefixes, first rescans the
 document.  When called with a numeric prefix, make that many citations.
@@ -5448,7 +5448,7 @@
 New key binding @kbd{t} in the @file{*toc*} buffer to change this
 setting.@refill 
 @item
-RefTeX maintaines an @file{Index Phrases} file in which phrases can be 
+RefTeX maintains an @file{Index Phrases} file in which phrases can be 
 collected.  When the document is ready, RefTeX can search all
 these phrases and assist indexing all matches.@refill
 @item
--- a/man/sc.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/sc.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@
 @table @asis
 @item the symbol @code{continue}
 This tells Regi to continue processing entries after a match, instead of
-reseting the frame and moving @samp{point}. In this way, lines of text
+resetting the frame and moving @samp{point}. In this way, lines of text
 can have multiple matches, but you have to be careful to avoid entering
 infinite loops.
 
--- a/man/tramp.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/tramp.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@
 @file{/usr/info/dir}.  Copy the top of this file down to the first
 occurrence of `* Menu' including that line plus one more blank line,
 to your working directory @file{texi/dir}, or use the sample provided
-in the @file{texi} directroy of this distribution.  See
+in the @file{texi} directory of this distribution.  See
 @file{texi/dir_sample}
 
 Once a @file{dir} file is in place, this command will make the entry.
@@ -541,9 +541,9 @@
 @cindex methods, external transfer
 @cindex methods, out-of-band
 Loading or saving a remote file requires that the content of the file
-be transfered between the two machines. The content of the file can be
-transfered over the same connection used to log in to the remote
-machine or the file can be transfered through another connection using
+be transferred between the two machines. The content of the file can be
+transferred over the same connection used to log in to the remote
+machine or the file can be transferred through another connection using
 a remote copy program such as @command{rcp}, @command{scp} or
 @command{rsync}.  The former are called @dfn{inline methods}, the
 latter are called @dfn{out-of-band methods} or @dfn{external transfer
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@
 that use the @command{ssh1} and @command{ssh2} commands explicitly. If
 you don't know what these are, you do not need these options.
 
-All the methods based on @command{ssh} have an additional kludgy
+All the methods based on @command{ssh} have an additional kludgey
 feature: you can specify a host name which looks like @file{host#42}
 (the real host name, then a hash sign, then a port number).  This
 means to connect to the given host but to also pass @code{-p 42} as
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@
 session can begin to absorb the advantage that the lack of encoding and
 decoding presents.
 
-All the @command{ssh} based methods support the kludgy @samp{-p}
+All the @command{ssh} based methods support the kludgey @samp{-p}
 feature where you can specify a port number to connect to in the host
 name.  For example, the host name @file{host#42} tells Tramp to
 specify @samp{-p 42} in the argument list for @command{ssh}.
--- a/man/woman.texi	Fri Aug 16 04:54:20 2002 +0000
+++ b/man/woman.texi	Fri Aug 16 06:29:40 2002 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 \input texinfo   @c -*-texinfo-*-
-@c $Id: woman.texi,v 1.9 2002/07/01 08:05:00 rms Exp $
+@c $Id: woman.texi,v 1.10 2002/07/01 08:06:37 rms Exp $
 @c %**start of header
 @setfilename ../info/woman
 @settitle WoMan: Browse Unix Manual Pages ``W.O. (without) Man''
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
 develop WoMan to take advantage of developments in Emacs itself.  At
 present, WoMan uses several display faces to support bold and italic
 text, to indicate other fonts, etc.  The default faces are also
-coloured, but the choice of faces is customizable.  WoMan provides menu
+colored, but the choice of faces is customizable.  WoMan provides menu
 support for navigation and mouse support for following references, in
 addition to the navigation facilities provided by @code{man} mode.
 WoMan has (this) texinfo documentation!
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
 @var{version} is your Emacs version), provided you have write access to
 it.  If you use a directory that is not included by default in your
 Emacs load path then you need to add something like this to your
-@file{.emacs} initialisation file:
+@file{.emacs} initialization file:
 
 @lisp
 (add-to-list 'load-path "my-lisp")
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
 @heading Setup
 
 Setup that is either necessary or desirable consists of adding a small
-amount of Emacs Lisp code to your @file{.emacs} initialisation file.  It
+amount of Emacs Lisp code to your @file{.emacs} initialization file.  It
 may be necessary (or at least convenient) to make WoMan autoload (if you
 are not running GNU Emacs 21 or later) and to set the search path used
 by the @code{woman} interface.  You may also find it convenient to make
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
 
 (By default, WoMan will automatically define the dired keys @kbd{W} and
 @kbd{w} when it loads, but only if they are not already defined.  This
-behaviour is controlled by the user option @code{woman-dired-keys}.
+behavior is controlled by the user option @code{woman-dired-keys}.
 Note that the @code{dired-x} (dired extra) package binds
 @code{dired-copy-filename-as-kill} to the key @kbd{w}, although @kbd{W}
 appears to be unused.  The @code{dired-x} package will over-write the
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
 If you really want to square the man-woman circle then you can!  If you
 run the GNU command interpreter @code{bash} then you might care to
 define the following @code{bash} function in your @code{bash}
-initialisation file @file{.bashrc}:
+initialization file @file{.bashrc}:
 
 @example
 man() @{ gnudoit -q '(raise-frame (selected-frame)) (woman' \"$1\" ')' ; @}
@@ -1396,11 +1396,11 @@
 @item woman-bold-headings
 A boolean value.  If non-@code{nil} then embolden section and subsection
 headings.  Default is @code{t}.  [Heading emboldening is @emph{not} standard
-@code{man} behaviour.]
+@code{man} behavior.]
 
 @item woman-ignore
 A boolean value.  If non-@code{nil} then unrecognised requests etc. are
-ignored.  Default is @code{t}.  This gives the standard @code{ROFF} behaviour.
+ignored.  Default is @code{t}.  This gives the standard @code{ROFF} behavior.
 If @code{nil} then they are left in the buffer, which may aid debugging.
 
 @item woman-preserve-ascii
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@
 @item woman-fontify
 A boolean value.  If non-@code{nil} then WoMan assumes that face support is
 available.  It defaults to a non-@code{nil} value if the display supports
-either colours or different fonts.
+either colors or different fonts.
 
 @item woman-italic-face
 Face for italic font in man pages.  Default: italic, underlined,
@@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@
 @cindex log buffer
 @cindex buffer, log
 
-This is modelled on the Emacs byte-compiler.  It logs all files
+This is modeled on the Emacs byte-compiler.  It logs all files
 formatted by WoMan and the time taken.  If WoMan finds anything that it
 cannot handle then it writes a warning to this buffer.  If the variable
 @code{woman-show-log} is non-@code{nil} (by default it is @code{nil}) then