Where did we lurn to spel?

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Thu Apr 28 22:12:04 UTC 2016


On 04/28/16 05:33 PM, 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".
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We might be able to hook it up as a 'linter' to the Phrabricator 'arc'
tool, to give people a warning and a chance to correct such errors.

-- 
Allan Jude


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