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+++ b/doc/lispref/windows.texi
@@ -895,16 +895,16 @@ unless @var{norecord} is non-@code{nil}.
@end defun
@deffn Command replace-buffer-in-windows buffer-or-name
-This function replaces @var{buffer-or-name} with some other buffer in
-all windows displaying it. It chooses the other buffer with
-@code{other-buffer}. In the usual applications of this function, you
+This function replaces @var{buffer-or-name} in all windows displaying
+it with some other buffer. It uses @code{other-buffer} to choose the
+other buffer. In the usual applications of this function, you
don't care which other buffer is used; you just want to make sure that
@var{buffer-or-name} is no longer displayed.
-If a window displaying @var{buffer-or-name} is dedicated and the window
-is not the only window on its frame, that window is deleted. If the
+If the window displaying @var{buffer-or-name} is dedicated, and
+is not the only window on its frame, that window is deleted. If that
window is the only window on its frame and there are other frames left,
-the window's frame is deleted too. If there are no other frames left,
+the window's frame is deleted as well. If there are no other frames left,
some other buffer is displayed in that window.
This function returns @code{nil}.
@@ -1184,19 +1184,19 @@ described above.
@c Emacs 19 feature
@cindex dedicated window
-A window can be marked as ``dedicated'' to its buffer. Then
+A window can be marked as @dfn{dedicated} to its buffer. Then
@code{display-buffer} will not try to use that window to display any
-other buffer. @code{set-window-buffer} will throw an error when asked
-to display another buffer in it. Both, @code{get-lru-window} and
+other buffer. @code{set-window-buffer} will signal an error when asked
+to display another buffer in it. Both @code{get-lru-window} and
@code{get-largest-window} do not consider dedicated windows as
candidates when their @var{dedicated} argument is non-@code{nil}.
When @code{delete-windows-on} deletes a dedicated window and that window
-is the only window on its frame, it will delete that frame as well when
+is the only window on its frame, it will delete that frame as well if
there are other frames left. @code{replace-buffer-in-windows} deletes
any dedicated window showing its buffer argument. When such a window is
-the only window on its frame, that frame is deleted too when there are
-other frames left.
+the only window on its frame, that frame is deleted if there are other
+frames left.
@defun window-dedicated-p &optional window
This function returns non-@code{nil} if @var{window} is marked as