[Libguestfs] [PATCH libguestfs] maint: fix doc typos

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Apr 18 09:18:19 UTC 2012


Hi Rich,

I ran this command to spot a few typos:

  git ls-files|misspellings -f -|grep -v '^po'

Here are fixes:

>From ec62fad96cc2884c8fd43ecb550a8bcac317cca0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:15:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH libguestfs] maint: fix doc typos

Fix typos spotted by http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check.
* configure.ac: As above.
* ocaml/examples/guestfs-ocaml.pod: Likewise.
* fish/guestfish.pod: Likewise.
---
 configure.ac                     |    2 +-
 fish/guestfish.pod               |    6 +++---
 ocaml/examples/guestfs-ocaml.pod |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c62bf9a..eb5f363 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1254,7 +1254,7 @@ echo -n "gobject introspection ............... "
 if test "x$HAVE_INTROSPECTION_TRUE" = "x"; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi
 echo
 echo "If any optional component is configured 'no' when you expected 'yes'"
-echo "then you should check the preceeding messages."
+echo "then you should check the preceding messages."
 echo
 echo "Please report bugs back to the mailing list:"
 echo "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs"
diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod
index c0827c7..a45af00 100644
--- a/fish/guestfish.pod
+++ b/fish/guestfish.pod
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ the Unix L<chmod(1)> program):

 Commands that return numbers usually print them in decimal, but
 some commands print numbers in other radices (eg. C<umask> prints
-the mode in octal, preceeded by C<0>).
+the mode in octal, preceded by C<0>).

 =head1 WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING

@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ will perform a Cartesian product.
 =head1 COMMENTS

 Any line which starts with a I<#> character is treated as a comment
-and ignored.  The I<#> can optionally be preceeded by whitespace,
+and ignored.  The I<#> can optionally be preceded by whitespace,
 but B<not> by a command.  For example:

  # this is a comment
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ some arbitrary end marker:
  END

 Any string of characters can be used instead of C<END>.  The end
-marker must appear on a line of its own, without any preceeding or
+marker must appear on a line of its own, without any preceding or
 following characters (not even spaces).

 Note that the C<-E<lt>E<lt>> syntax only applies to parameters used to
diff --git a/ocaml/examples/guestfs-ocaml.pod b/ocaml/examples/guestfs-ocaml.pod
index 7d0c041..139997b 100644
--- a/ocaml/examples/guestfs-ocaml.pod
+++ b/ocaml/examples/guestfs-ocaml.pod
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ on the class C<Guestfs.guestfs>:
  method set_verbose : bool -> unit

 The object-oriented style is usually briefer, and the minor performance
-penalty isn't noticable in the general overhead of performing
+penalty isn't noticeable in the general overhead of performing
 libguestfs functions.

 =head2 CLOSING THE HANDLE
--
1.7.10.208.gb4267




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