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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-06-15 17:08:12 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-06-15 17:08:12 +0000
commitb8f86df3913d881030d9a16481794fe524f012a9 (patch)
tree9eee7dd645e98e8f48de10960f7648203ef3430e /man
parent4f09cbeb0fd8acf015f2ff6a76b6664913665867 (diff)
downloademacs-b8f86df3913d881030d9a16481794fe524f012a9.tar.gz
Proofreading fixes from Tim Goodwin <tjg@star.le.ac.uk>.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/anti.texi4
-rw-r--r--man/rmail.texi29
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/anti.texi b/man/anti.texi
index 451a427eebf..1e301444681 100644
--- a/man/anti.texi
+++ b/man/anti.texi
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ avoids the complexity of display layout in Emacs 21. To wit:
@itemize @minus
@item
Variable-size characters are not supported in Emacs 20. You cannot use
-fonts which contain oversized characters, and using italics fonts can
+fonts which contain oversized characters, and using italic fonts can
result in illegible display. However, text which uses variable-size
-fonts is unreadable anyway. With all characters in a frame layed out on
+fonts is unreadable anyway. With all characters in a frame laid out on
a regular grid, each character having the same height and width, text is
much easier to read.
diff --git a/man/rmail.texi b/man/rmail.texi
index f770994009f..c60c259cdd4 100644
--- a/man/rmail.texi
+++ b/man/rmail.texi
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ to move sequentially through the file, since this is the order of
receipt of messages. When you enter Rmail, you are positioned at the
first message that you have not yet made current (that is, the first one
that has the @samp{unseen} attribute; @pxref{Rmail Attributes}). Move
-forward to see the other new messages; move backward to reexamine old
+forward to see the other new messages; move backward to re-examine old
messages.
@table @kbd
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ deleted remains current. A numeric argument to either command reverses
the direction of motion after deletion.
@vindex rmail-delete-message-hook
- Whenever Rmail deletes a message, it invokes the function(s) listed in
+ Whenever Rmail deletes a message, it runs the hook
@code{rmail-delete-message-hook}. When the hook functions are invoked,
the message has been marked deleted, but it is still the current message
in the Rmail buffer.
@@ -442,11 +442,6 @@ specified file. This file may be an Rmail file or it may be in system
inbox format; the output commands ascertain the file's format and write
the copied message in that format.
- When copying a message to a file in Unix mail file format, these
-commands include whichever header fields are currently visible. Use the
-@kbd{t} command first, if you wish, to specify which headers to show
-(and copy).
-
The @kbd{o} and @kbd{C-o} commands differ in two ways: each has its
own separate default file name, and each specifies a choice of format to
use when the file does not already exist. The @kbd{o} command uses
@@ -827,7 +822,7 @@ a match for the regular expression @var{topic}.
@kindex C-M-s @r{(Rmail)}
@findex rmail-summary-by-regexp
- @kbd{C-M-s @var{rgexp} @key{RET}} (@code{rmail-summary-by-regexp})
+ @kbd{C-M-s @var{regexp} @key{RET}} (@code{rmail-summary-by-regexp})
makes a partial summary which mentions only the messages whose headers
(including the date and the subject lines) match the regular
expression @var{regexp}.
@@ -1013,15 +1008,15 @@ clicking on them with @kbd{Mouse-2} or by moving to one and typing
@cindex decoding mail messages (Rmail)
Rmail automatically decodes messages which contain non-@sc{ascii}
-characters, just as it does with files you visit and with and
-subprocess output. Rmail uses the standard
-@samp{charset=@var{charset}} header in the message, if any, to determine how
-the message was encoded by the sender. It maps @var{charset} into the
-corresponding Emacs coding system (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and uses
-that coding system to decode message text. If the message header
-doesn't have the charset specification, or if the @var{charset} it
-specifies is not recognized, Rmail chooses the coding system with the
-usual Emacs heuristics and defaults (@pxref{Recognize Coding}).
+characters, just as Emacs does with files you visit and with subprocess
+output. Rmail uses the standard @samp{charset=@var{charset}} header in
+the message, if any, to determine how the message was encoded by the
+sender. It maps @var{charset} into the corresponding Emacs coding
+system (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and uses that coding system to decode
+message text. If the message header doesn't have the charset
+specification, or if the @var{charset} it specifies is not recognized,
+Rmail chooses the coding system with the usual Emacs heuristics and
+defaults (@pxref{Recognize Coding}).
@cindex fixing incorrectly decoded mail messages
Occasionally, a message is decoded incorrectly, either because Emacs