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authorDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-12-14 17:36:16 -0600
committerDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-12-14 17:36:16 -0600
commit0c4501b5b186b116b90aa19fd7fb6087b3d70a69 (patch)
tree2b3e4299a043c38c08a44651566ac942f6369ba8 /chapter08
parent3c5ecc9121193ac734a9220e0962c5e2ba1c67c4 (diff)
Patch capitalization. Substitute "spell-checking" for "spell":
"Spell" can be a noun or a verb, but it's never an adjective. Clarify the description of "xxd".
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter08')
-rw-r--r--chapter08/vim.xml19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/vim.xml b/chapter08/vim.xml
index 948650e34..8672ad818 100644
--- a/chapter08/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter08/vim.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE "/etc/vimrc"' &gt;&gt; src/feature.h</userinput></screen>
- <para>Prepare vim for compilation:</para>
+ <para>Prepare Vim for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
- <para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
+ <para>Many users reflexively type <command>vi</command> instead of
<command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>
when users habitually enter <command>vi</command>, create a
symlink for both the binary and the man page in the provided
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ for L in /usr/share/man/{,*/}man1/vim.1; do
ln -sv vim.1 $(dirname $L)/vi.1
done</userinput></screen>
- <para>By default, vim's documentation is installed in <filename
+ <para>By default, Vim's documentation is installed in <filename
class="directory">/usr/share/vim</filename>. The following symlink
allows the documentation to be accessed via <filename
class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename>, making
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ done</userinput></screen>
<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sv ../&vim-docdir;/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>If an X Window System is going to be installed on the LFS
- system, it may be necessary to recompile vim after installing X. Vim
+ system, it may be necessary to recompile Vim after installing X. Vim
comes with a GUI version of the editor that requires X and some
additional libraries to be installed. For more information on this
- process, refer to the vim documentation and the vim installation page
+ process, refer to the Vim documentation and the Vim installation page
in the BLFS book at <ulink
url="&blfs-book;postlfs/vim.html"/>.</para>
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>vim -c ':options'</userinput></screen>
<note>
- <para>By default, vim only installs spell files for the English language.
- To install spell files for your preferred language, copy the
+ <para>By default, vim only installs spell-checking files for the English language.
+ To install spell-checking files for your preferred language, copy the
<filename class='extension'>.spl</filename> and optionally, the
<filename class='extension'>.sug</filename> files for your language
and character encoding from
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
<filename class='directory'>
/usr/share/&vim-docdir;/spell/</filename>.</para>
- <para>To use these spell files, some configuration in
+ <para>To use these spell-checking files, some configuration in
<filename>/etc/vimrc</filename> is needed, e.g.:</para>
<screen><literal>set spelllang=en,ru
@@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ set spell</literal></screen>
<term><command>xxd</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates a hex dump of the given file; it can
- also do the reverse, so it can be used for binary patching</para>
+ also perform the inverse operation, so it can be used for binary
+ patching</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-vim xxd">
<primary sortas="b-xxd">xxd</primary>
</indexterm>