bug#3661: marked as done (English errors in help for whitespace-style)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #3661,
regarding English errors in help for whitespace-style
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> English errors in help for whitespace-style
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> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:30 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (gnu/linux)
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> There are some English errors in the help for the whitespace-style
> variable that render some of the text virtually unintelligible to a
> native English speaker (or at least to this particular native English
> speaker).
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> Original:
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>    space-after-tab::space       TABs are visualized when occurs 8 or
>                                 more SPACEs after a TAB via faces.
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> I would say
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>    space-after-tab::space       TABs are visualized using faces when 8 or
>                                 more SPACEs occur after a TAB.
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> Original:
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>    space-before-tab::space      TABs are visualized when occurs SPACEs
>                                 before TAB via faces.
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> I would say:
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>    space-before-tab::space      TABs are visualized using faces when
>                                 SPACEs occur before TAB.
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> At least I think that's what I would say based on what I think the
> variable seems to do, though I can't really tell from the original
> wording.  (This is not a criticism of the author, whose English is much
> better than my abilities in any non-English language!)
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> I would be willing to go through the documentation strings to help clean
> up the English if it would help.
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> -- 
> Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
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> Re: English errors in help for whitespace-style
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> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:48:10 -0400
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> > There are some English errors in the help for the whitespace-style
> > variable that render some of the text virtually unintelligible to a
> > native English speaker (or at least to this particular native English
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> Fixed, thanks.
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