; Fix recent change in documentation of "device number"

* src/dired.c (Ffile_attributes):
* lisp/files.el (buffer-file-number, file-attribute-file-number):
Fix wording of the doc strings.

* etc/NEWS:
* doc/lispref/buffers.texi (Buffer File Name):
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Attributes): Fix a typo and
wording.  (Bug#58446)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi
index b9d4e87dc73..2467364dc6e 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi
@@ -1404,16 +1404,16 @@ The file's inode number (@code{file-attribute-inode-number}),
 a nonnegative integer.
 
 @item
-The filesystem number of the device that the file is on
+The filesystem's identifier of the device that the file is on
 (@code{file-attribute-device-number}), an integer or a cons cell of
-integers.  The latter is sometimes used by remote files, in order to
-distinguish the remote filesystems from the local ones.
+two integers.  The latter is sometimes used by remote files, in order
+to distinguish remote filesystems from local ones.
 @end enumerate
 
-The file's inode and device numbers together give enough information
+The file's inode and device together give enough information
 to distinguish any two files on the system---no two files can have the
-same values for both of these numbers.  This tupel is returned by
-@code{file-attribute-file-number}.
+same values for both of these attributes.  This tuple that uniquely
+identifies the file is returned by @code{file-attribute-file-number}.
 
 For example, here are the file attributes for @file{files.texi}: