Re: [patch #4683] Spelling corrections in manual find.texi

Speaking as a "Yank", I don't mind James's use of british spellings. My position is: If its printed in the U.S. (by the GNU Press or other) then it can be changed accordingly when its (hopefully) copyedited before printing. Related to that, I think the position statement should work towards cons

Re: perm.texi from coreutils

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, James Youngman wrote: > > I am willing to volunteer to look into precisely what merges would be > > necessary to take their changes. > > I suspect we can just take the update as-is. But I would be grateful if > you could check. The changes were minimal enough to make a readab

perm.texi from coreutils

A documentation patch that I sent to the coreutils folks about a few typos in perm.texi was applied last month. findutils could update its "Permissions" section of the file by getting the latest version from them. - Findutils version:

find.texi: Databases: Newline handling

I'm working on improving the GNU findutils manual and would be interested in having someone verify something for accuracy. I have a question concering the following paragraph in the manual: "So, if you are using the new database format (this is the default) and your system uses GNU find, newlines

Re: [patch #3751] Typos and small suggestions to find.texi

The file size difference of 33Kb and 110Kb is from fixing the whitespace and paragraph filling for other lines in the file and not just my edits. Emacs made it easy to find long lines that I could then choose to justify or not. One doesn't want to fill the entire buffer, wholesale, without checkin