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bug#34049: 26.1; Minor typo in C-h t TUTORIAL
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Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#34049: 26.1; Minor typo in C-h t TUTORIAL |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:18:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 08:49:57 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> tags 34049 notabug
> thanks
>
>> From: 孙庆耀 <sunqingyao19970825@icloud.com>
>> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 07:13:57 +0800
>>
>> On Line 707 of the builtin TUTORIAL, it says
>>
>> > If the computer crashes, you can recover your auto-saved editing by
>> > finding the file normally (the file you were editing, not the auto
>> > save file) and then typing M-x recover-this-file <Return>. When it
>> > asks fo confirmation, type yes<Return> to go ahead and recover the
>> > auto-save data.
>>
>> Here `asks fo confirmation' should be `asks for conformation'.
>
> No, "confirmation" is correct there. The program asks the user to
> confirm that the user indeed wants to recover the session.
>
> Thanks.
The correction contained a typo, but the OP was correct that TUTORIAL
also has a typo:
diff --git a/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL b/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL
index 48ba5dbc07..3f5f116648 100644
--- a/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL
+++ b/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ Emacs deletes its auto save file.
If the computer crashes, you can recover your auto-saved editing by
finding the file normally (the file you were editing, not the auto
save file) and then typing M-x recover-this-file <Return>. When it
-asks fo confirmation, type yes<Return> to go ahead and recover the
+asks for confirmation, type yes<Return> to go ahead and recover the
auto-save data.
I went ahead and pushed the fix to emacs-26.
Steve Berman