Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs at rgrjr.dyndns.org> (tiny change; non-copyrightable)

Spelling and grammar fixes.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index f9e4082b77c90faf1c54dc700575dfc0b6e26af7..2a82dfd5ae73c49c7ae7621bac99400fe4b8a36a 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ OS X, or on Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows.
 The alpha parameter should be an integer between 0 (transparent) and
 100 (opaque), or a float number between 0.0 and 1.0.  It can also be a
 cons cell (ACTIVE . INACTIVE), where ACTIVE is the opacity of an
-active frame and INACTIVE is the opactity of non-active frames.
+active frame and INACTIVE is the opacity of non-active frames.
 
 The variable `frame-alpha-lower-limit' defines a lower bound for the
 opacity; the default is 20.
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ saving articles drafts and ~/.newsrc.eld.  These file may not be read
 correctly in Emacs 22 and below.  If you want to Gnus across different Emacs
 versions, you may set `mm-auto-save-coding-system' to `emacs-mule'.
 
-*** Password are consistently loaded through `auth-source'
+*** Passwords are consistently loaded through `auth-source'
 Gnus can use `auth-source' for POP and IMAP passwords.  Also see that
 `smtpmail' and `url' support `auth-source' for SMTP and HTTP/HTTPS/RSS
 authentication respectively.
@@ -871,8 +871,8 @@ than `with-output-to-temp-buffer' with `print-help-return-message'.
 *** New option `help-window-select' permits to customize whether help
 window shall be automatically selected when invoking help.
 
-*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits to specify new
-position of point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').
+*** New variable `help-window-point-marker' permits one to specify a new
+position for point in help window (for example in `view-lossage').
 
 ** Isearch
 +++
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ is bound globally to the command `occur'.
 *** Isearch can now search through multiple ChangeLog files.
 When running Isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
 then another C-s tries searching the previous ChangeLog,
-if there is one (e.g. go from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
+if there is one (e.g. going from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
 This is enabled if multi-isearch-search is non-nil.
 
 *** Two new commands to start Isearch on a list of marked buffers
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ IPv6 addresses are supported now as host names.  They must be embedded
 in square brackets, like in "/ssh:[::1]:".
 
 *** Multihop syntax has been removed.
-The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed.  Instead of, multi hops
+The pseudo-method "multi" has been removed.  Instead, multi hops
 can be specified by the new variable `tramp-default-proxies-alist'.
 
 *** More default settings.
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ Default values can be set via the variables `tramp-default-user',
 
 *** Connection information is cached.
 In order to reduce connection setup, information about used
-connections are kept persistent in a file.  The name of this file is
+connections is kept persistently in a file.  The name of this file is
 defined in the variable `tramp-persistency-file-name'.
 
 *** Control of remote processes.
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ by typing the D key or using the "Changeset Diff" menu entry.
 
 *** vc-git supports the "git grep" command.
 +++
-*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of maintainer able
+*** VC Support for Meta-CVS has been removed for lack of a maintainer able
 to update it to the new VC.
 
 ** Miscellaneous
@@ -1845,8 +1845,8 @@ the baseline is controlled by a new variable, `underline-minimum-offset'.
 
 *** You can now pass the value of the `invisible' property to
 invisible-p to check whether it would cause the text to be invisible.
-Convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer position
-(e.g. in before/after-strings).
+This is convenient when checking invisibility of text with no buffer
+position (e.g. in before/after-strings).
 
 +++
 *** `clear-image-cache' can be told to flush only images of a specific file.