diff --git a/src/backend/config.c b/src/backend/config.c
index 731567596..ce6da174f 100644
--- a/src/backend/config.c
+++ b/src/backend/config.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ lumiera_config_get_default (const char* key, const char** value)
   int ret = -1;
 
   TODO ("follow '<' delegates?");
-  TODO ("refactor _get and get_default to iterator access");
+  TODO ("refactor _get and get_default to iterator access (return LList or Lookupentry)");
   LumieraConfigitem item = lumiera_config_lookup_item_tail_find (&lumiera_global_config->keys, key);
 
   if (item && item->parent == &lumiera_global_config->defaults)
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ lumiera_config_set (const char* key, const char* delim_value)
   TODO ("       find matching suffix");
   TODO ("       find proper prefix indentation, else use config.indent");
   TODO ("       create configitem with prefix/suffix removed");
-
+  
 
 
 //  * set a value by key
diff --git a/src/backend/config.h b/src/backend/config.h
index f0df796db..fea04b3b6 100644
--- a/src/backend/config.h
+++ b/src/backend/config.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ struct lumiera_config_struct
     We use rwlocks here since concurrent reads are likely common.
 
     So far this is a global config lock, if this is a problem we might granularize it by locking on a file level.
-    config access is not planned to be transaction al yet, if this is a problem we need to expose the rwlock to a config_acquire/config_release function pair
+    config access is not planned to be transactional yet, if this is a problem we need to expose the rwlock to a config_acquire/config_release function pair
    */
   lumiera_rwlock lock;
 };
diff --git a/src/backend/configitem.c b/src/backend/configitem.c
index 0d7830b87..917676251 100644
--- a/src/backend/configitem.c
+++ b/src/backend/configitem.c
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ lumiera_configitem_move (LumieraConfigitem self, LumieraConfigitem source)
   self->key_size = source->key_size;
   self->delim = source->delim;
   self->vtable = source->vtable;
+
   return self;
 }
 
@@ -296,20 +297,20 @@ lumiera_configitem_parse (LumieraConfigitem self, const char* line)
 
       /* skip blanks */
       itr += self->key_size;
-      while (*itr && isspace(*itr))
+      while (*itr && isspace (*itr))
         itr++;
 
       if (self->key_size && *itr == '=')
         {
           /*this configentry assigns a value to a key*/
           self->delim = itr;
-          self->vtable = &lumiera_configentry_funcs; 
+          self->vtable = &lumiera_configentry_funcs;
         }
       else if (self->key_size && *itr == '<')
         {
           /*this configentry is a redirect*/
           self->delim = itr;
-          self->vtable = &lumiera_configentry_funcs;  
+          self->vtable = &lumiera_configentry_funcs;
         }
       else
         {