Re: [gnu.org #1912852] Typo

Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/12/23 02:48, bill-auger via RT wrote:
> your comment got through to webmaster - thanks for attending to it - ive a follow suggest
> 
> "all its input" is improper grammar - that should be "all of its input"
> 
> also, i would either quote or hyphenate "the end of file string"; because that phrase is not merely descriptive - it is a very precise technical term, taken as a whole - just IMHO, but i would rather see something like one of these:
> 
> the end-of-file string
> the "end of file" string
> the End Of File string

Thanks or the review.
I pushed this with your suggestions:

   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=da65ab1e6

I also changed "end of file" to "end-of-file" in other places, and installed
a syntax-check rule to ensure the hyphenated use in future.

   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=7836aa1de

Have a nice day,
Berny
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