Update guide.md: use the latest prelease channel version in the example

Plus a tiny bit of copy editing.
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@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ of metadata files to understand their purpose. These can be combined.
For example, if you want access to both prerelease and cross bindists, you'd do:
```sh
ghcup config add-release-channel https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/master/ghcup-prereleases-0.0.7.yaml
ghcup config add-release-channel https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/master/ghcup-prereleases-0.0.8.yaml
ghcup config add-release-channel https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/master/ghcup-cross-0.0.8.yaml
```
@ -180,14 +180,13 @@ url-source:
Also see [config.yaml](https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/blob/master/data/config.yaml)
for more options.
You can also use an alternative metadata via one-shot cli option:
You can also use an alternative metadata via the one-shot CLI option:
```sh
ghcup --url-source=https://some-url/ghcup-0.0.8.yaml tui
```
One main caveat of using URLs is that you might need to check whether there are new versions
of the file (e.g. `ghcup-0.0.7.yaml` vs `ghcup-0.0.8.yaml`). Although old metadata files
are supported for some time, they are not so indefinitely.
### Mirrors
@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ Note that later versions of GHCup allow more sophisticated mirror support, see [
1. [https://mirror.sjtu.edu.cn/docs/ghcup](https://mirror.sjtu.edu.cn/docs/ghcup)
2. [https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/help/ghcup.html](https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/help/ghcup.html)
### Git based metadata config
### Git-based metadata config
If you don't like the way ghcup updates its metadata with caching and fetching via curl, you can also do as follows: