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Bug 332335

Summary: Fix for wrong usages of affect* and effect*
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component: UIAssignee: Curtis Windatt <curtis.windatt.public>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: curtis.windatt.public, markus.kell.r
Version: 3.6Keywords: contributed
Target Milestone: 3.7 M5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Michael Rennie CLA 2010-12-10 14:54:11 EST 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #317975 +++

Created an attachment (id=172745)
Fix

N20100620-2000

Here's a fix for wrong usages of affect* (usually a verb) and effect* (usually a noun). For further information, see e.g.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/affectvseffect.htm and
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html

The patch also contains fixes for Ant, Platform Debug, and PDE.
Comment 1 Curtis Windatt CLA 2010-12-13 13:18:18 EST 
Fixed in HEAD.  Thanks Markus.
Comment 2 Curtis Windatt CLA 2011-01-26 13:03:27 EST 
Verified that fix is in I20110126-0800