[Spice-devel] vdagent: Spelling and case fixes in comments

[Jonathon Jongsma]

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 12:11 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 11:38:03AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > -       pointing to a non existing window. */
> > > > +       pointing to a nonexistent window. */
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Unsure about this one, I'll let a native speaker tell us what we
> > > should
> > > use here.
> > 
> > "nonexistent" is definitely a valid word:
> 
> Oh, I was not implying it's not a valid word, just assuming that both
> forms are somewhat valid, and I do not know if one "sounds" more
> correct
> to the ears of a native speaker, so I'd rather check.
> > 
> > But as far as I can tell the form with a space and the -ing ending
> > is 
> > not valid at all.
> 
> non-existing seems to be used sometimes though,
> http://www.dictionary.com/browse/non-existing has some quotes from
> books
> using it. So dunno if we should change to non-existing, nonexistent,
> non-existent, ... which is why the input from someone else could be
> useful.

As a native english speaker, the -ing ending sounds odd. I agree with
nonexistent (or non-existent).

Jonathon