Finding typos using codespell

Michael Schmiedgen schmiedgen at gmx.net
Tue Apr 19 14:58:51 UTC 2011


On 19.04.2011 13:15, Bruce Cran wrote:
> There's a new tool that can be used to find spelling mistakes in code: codespell
> from http://www.politreco.com has already been used to find mistakes in both
> Linux and LLVM. I ran it on sys/ and it found lots of potential typos - the
> full diff (which I know does contain some incorrect changes) can be found at
> http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/codespell_sys.diff .

Nice! But there are also some false positives in .uu
files.

Cheers,
   Michael


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