Where did we lurn to spel?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Apr 28 21:36:59 UTC 2016


On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Warren Block wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>
>> Hello;
>> 
>> I just updated locally the textproc/codespell to the latest version
>> (bugzilla 209128 for the curious), and it finds a *crazy* amount of
>> issues in code comments.
>> 
>> I can't handle it on my own, indeed I got tired just be checking
>> sys/arm ! Anyways, here is what I went "thru":
>> 
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~pfg/patches/codespell/
>
> textproc/igor finds many mistakes, and works on text files, man pages, 
> DocBook, and HTML.  Use of either of these tools is optional, though.
>
> Note: in sys/arm/at91/if_atereg.h, it missed "deines"->"defines".

Oh, and many of these are contractions, which should be avoided anyway.


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