[bug #13363] Typos in find and locate manpages.

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #13363 (project findutils):

Forwarded comment by A. Costa:

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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:09:07 +0000                                            
                                                     
James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:                              
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
> The patch I have actually applied is attached (I don't think 'writable' is a
                                                     
> spelling error).                                                            
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
Did you mean:                                                                 
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
        1) I don't think 'writable' is a spelling error                       
                                                     
        2) I don't think 'writeable' is a spelling error                      
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
Cause you wrote #1, but judging from context probably meant #2.               
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
In any case "writEable" is an error:                                          
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
        % echo writable | ispell -l -d american | ispell -l -d british ;echo
$?                                                     
        0                       # no output, it's correct.                    
                                                     
        % echo writeable | ispell -l -d american | ispell -l -d british ;echo
$?                                                    
        writeable       # not in dictionaries.                                
                                                     
        0                                                                     
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
And 'find' in 'findutils' v4.2.20-2 has:                                      
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
        % man find | grep -n writeable                                        
                                                     
        981:       Search for files which are writeable by somebody (their
owner, or their                                          
        991:       symbolic form.  These commands all search for files which
are writeable                                          
        993:       writeable by both the owner and group to be matched; either
will do.                                             
        1000:       writeable by both their owner and their group.            
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
Unfortunately it seems the modified patch here:                               
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
       
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=13363&item_file_id=2591     
                                             
                                                                              
                                                     
Omits my four corrections of 'writEable'.  :'(                                
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
If doubt remains, see also this search for 'writable':                        
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
        http://www.onelook.com/?w=writable&ls=a                               
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
...which returns:                                                             
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
        We found 7 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word
writable:                                            
                                                                              
                                                     
        General dictionaries General (7 matching dictionaries)                
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
           1. writable : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition
[home, info]                                             
           2. writable : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language [home, info]                                     
           3. writable : Dictionary.com [home, info]                          
                                                     
           4. writable : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]          
                                                     
           5. Writable : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]    
                                                     
           6. writable : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home,
info]                                                    
           7. Writable : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]   
                                                     
                                                                              
                                                     
Apologies if that seems like overkill; but it seems safer to err on the       
                                                     
side of caution.  Thanks for maintaining these packagages and checking        
                                                     
the other typos -- especially since I have reported one or two bad ones       
                                                     
before.  HTH...

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