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authorCraig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com>2019-06-29 12:05:22 (GMT)
committerCraig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com>2019-07-03 13:38:25 (GMT)
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Help: Clean up trivial typos and grammar
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-rw-r--r--Help/command/execute_process.rst2
-rw-r--r--Help/command/list.rst23
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/execute_process.rst b/Help/command/execute_process.rst
index e6ad037..b11d1ac 100644
--- a/Help/command/execute_process.rst
+++ b/Help/command/execute_process.rst
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Options:
``COMMAND_ECHO <where>``
The command being run will be echo'ed to ``<where>`` with ``<where>``
- being set to ``STDERR``|``STDOUT``|``NONE``.
+ being set to one of ``STDERR``, ``STDOUT`` or ``NONE``.
``ENCODING <name>``
On Windows, the encoding that is used to decode output from the process.
diff --git a/Help/command/list.rst b/Help/command/list.rst
index 4444af7..866a597 100644
--- a/Help/command/list.rst
+++ b/Help/command/list.rst
@@ -207,20 +207,18 @@ but if duplicates are encountered, only the first instance is preserved.
[OUTPUT_VARIABLE <output variable>])
Transforms the list by applying an action to all or, by specifying a
-``<SELECTOR>``, to the selected elements of the list, storing result in-place
-or in the specified output variable.
+``<SELECTOR>``, to the selected elements of the list, storing the result
+in-place or in the specified output variable.
.. note::
- ``TRANSFORM`` sub-command does not change the number of elements of the
+ The ``TRANSFORM`` sub-command does not change the number of elements in the
list. If a ``<SELECTOR>`` is specified, only some elements will be changed,
- the other ones will remain same as before the transformation.
+ the other ones will remain the same as before the transformation.
-``<ACTION>`` specify the action to apply to the elements of list.
-The actions have exactly the same semantics as sub-commands of
-:command:`string` command.
-
-The ``<ACTION>`` may be one of:
+``<ACTION>`` specifies the action to apply to the elements of the list.
+The actions have exactly the same semantics as sub-commands of the
+:command:`string` command. ``<ACTION>`` must be one of the following:
``APPEND``, ``PREPEND``: Append, prepend specified value to each element of
the list.
@@ -261,10 +259,9 @@ of the list
list(TRANSFORM <list> REPLACE <regular_expression>
<replace_expression> ...)
-``<SELECTOR>`` select which elements of the list will be transformed. Only one
-type of selector can be specified at a time.
-
-The ``<SELECTOR>`` may be one of:
+``<SELECTOR>`` determines which elements of the list will be transformed.
+Only one type of selector can be specified at a time. When given,
+``<SELECTOR>`` must be one of the following:
``AT``: Specify a list of indexes.