[glib: 7/9] Spelling: avoid the "allows to" pattern
- From: Xavier Claessens <xclaesse src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [glib: 7/9] Spelling: avoid the "allows to" pattern
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:17:38 +0000 (UTC)
commit ec951e9de8e06c125dc7e9f55c806f9081ddd3c9
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv collabora com>
Date: Tue Sep 25 15:56:47 2018 +0100
Spelling: avoid the "allows to" pattern
This is detected by Debian's Lintian tool, which suggests
"allows one to" as a replacement. I've rephrased the documentation
in question to avoid both of those.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv collabora com>
docs/reference/gio/gio.xml | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/docs/reference/gio/gio.xml b/docs/reference/gio/gio.xml
index f2635d0b3..c348c43e5 100644
--- a/docs/reference/gio/gio.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/gio/gio.xml
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-D</option>,
<option>--direct=<replaceable>LOCATION</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem><para>Monitor the file directly. This allows to capture changes made via
hardlinks.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Monitor the file directly. This allows changes made via hardlinks to be
captured.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-s</option>,
<option>--silent=<replaceable>LOCATION</replaceable></option></term>
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></arg>
</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Allows to set a file attribute on a file.</para>
+ <para>Sets a file attribute on a file.</para>
<para>File attributes can be specified with their GIO name, e.g
standard::icon. Note that not all GIO file attributes are writable.
Use the --query-writable option of the info command to list
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