Minor changes.

diff --git a/man/anti.texi b/man/anti.texi
index 1e3014446814ad64ba88518975e427e0af66a9e1..5ca2dd196d72b7cdbdffd579cd78f1a3e9e35b71 100644 (file)
--- a/man/anti.texi
+++ b/man/anti.texi
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ shows that mergers are bad economics.  Face inheritance has also been
 removed, so no one can accumulate ``too much face.''
 
 @item
-Several face appearance attributes such as 3D appearence,
-strike-through, and overline, have been eliminated.
+Several face appearance attributes, including 3D, strike-through, and
+overline, have been eliminated.
 
 @item
 Emacs now provides its own ``lean and mean'' scroll bars instead of using
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ explicit words, their meaning is more self-evident.
 
 @item
 Colors are not available on text-only terminals.  If you @emph{must}
-have colors, but cannot afford running X, you can now use the MS-DOG
+have colors, but cannot afford to run X, you can now use the MS-DOG
 version of Emacs inside a DOS emulator.
 
 @item
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ etc.
 
 @item
 The support for ``wheeled'' mice under X has been removed, because
-of their slow scroll rate, and because you will find less and less of
+of their slow scroll rate, and because you will find fewer and fewer of
 these mice as you go back in time.  Instead Emacs 20 provides the
 @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} keys for scrolling.  (You can also use the
 scroll bar, but be advised that it, too, may be absent in yet earlier
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ provides.
 @item
 Some aspects of Emacs appearance, such as the colors of the scroll bar
 and the menus, can only be controlled via X resources.  Since colors
-aren't supported except on X, it doesn't make any sense doing this in
+aren't supported except on X, it doesn't make any sense to do this in
 any way but the X way.  For those users who aren't privy to X arcana,
 we've provided good default colors that should make everybody happy.
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ you won't have to set the options very often.
 Emacs 20 does not pop up a buffer with error messages when an error is
 signaled during loading of the user's init file.  Instead, it simply
 announces the fact that an error happened.  To know where in the init
-file was that, insert @code{(message "foo")} lines judiciously into the
+file that was, insert @code{(message "foo")} lines judiciously into the
 file and look for those messages in the @samp{*Messages*} buffer.
 
 @item

diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi
index c4c9667975a0ea25ce8435aa63b8535b03ac3119..c5361d518f05feb4b546eab85b57dd0b8af9848d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/basic.texi
+++ b/man/basic.texi
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ be @key{DEL}, and sets it up that way.  But in some cases, especially
 with text-only terminals, you will need to tell Emacs which key to use
 for that purpose.  If the large key not far above the @key{RET} or
 @key{ENTER} key doesn't delete backwards, you need to do this.
-@xref{DEL Gets Help}, for an explanation of how.
+@xref{DEL Doesn't Delete}, for an explanation of how.
 
   Most PC keyboards have both a @key{BACKSPACE} key a short ways above
 @key{RET} or @key{ENTER}, and a @key{DELETE} key elsewhere.  On these
@@ -763,12 +763,12 @@ the command.
 @section Repeating a Command
 @cindex repeating a command
 
-  Many simple commands, such as those invoked with a single key or with
-@kbd{M-x @var{command-name} @key{RET}}, can be repeated by invoking them
-with a numeric argument which serves as a repeat count
-(@pxref{Arguments}).  However, if the command you want to repeat prompts
-for some input, or is itself invoked with a numeric argument, using a
-numeric argument might be inconvenient or even impossible.
+  Many simple commands, such as those invoked with a single key or
+with @kbd{M-x @var{command-name} @key{RET}}, can be repeated by
+invoking them with a numeric argument that serves as a repeat count
+(@pxref{Arguments}).  However, if the command you want to repeat
+prompts for some input, or uses a numeric argument in another way,
+repetition using a numeric argument might be problematical.
 
 @kindex C-x z
 @findex repeat