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

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 10:32:13AM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for confirming, I'll push François's patch as is then.

Christophe
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