User manual typing errors

datatraveller1

Hi @PeterJones

I have read the first four chapters of the user manual and found a few typing errors you might want to correct:

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-defined-language-system/

“using a existing plugin”
-> correction: an existing
“langauge”
correction: language
“keywwords”
correction: keywords

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/editing/

“Using Alt + Mouse dragging or Alt + Shift + Arrow keys to make a selection in column mode”
correction: Use would be better
“Note: that the numerical boxes …”
correction: No colon
“sopme call it”
correction: some
" Revert to mopdified"
correction: modified

Alan Kilborn

@datatraveller1

Why don’t you make an issue?
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/npp-usermanual/issues

Also, typos are fairly obvious, but it is best to highlight them anyway. Why make the reader search for something you’ve already found?

datatraveller1

@Alan-Kilborn I edited my post and highlighted the typos, if that is what you meant.

I had hoped that my contribution would be appreciated.

Alan Kilborn

@datatraveller1

I had hoped that my contribution would be appreciated.

Well, it is better than nothing, but problems with the manual, like problems with the software, are best described in issues on github – did you look at the link I provided?

I had in mind something like this when I said typos are fairly obvious, but it is best to highlight them:

Revert to mopdified

But surely what you did is fine as well.
It really isn’t that big of a deal.

For something like this one, I like what you did, since it wasn’t really clear to me what you meant, instantly (now it is):

datatraveller1

Hi @Alan-Kilborn ok thank you, I have just created the issue https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/npp-usermanual/issues/457