Re: Bug#895712: ITP: misspell-fixer -- Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:49:05AM +0100, Lajos Veres wrote:

> * Package name: misspell-fixer
>   Description : Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.
[...]
> Reason:
> I have not found any sourcecode typofixer tool in Debian.
> Some users also mentioned that their life would be a little easier with a
> packaged version.

This sounds awfully similar to the package named codespell.

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Re: Bug#895712: ITP: misspell-fixer -- Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.

[Peter Pentchev]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:53:15AM +0100, Lajos Veres wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, kact...@gnu.org wrote:
> 
> > [2018-04-15 00:49] Lajos Veres 
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Reason: I have not found any sourcecode typofixer tool in Debian.
> > > Some users also mentioned that their life would be a little easier
> > > with a packaged version.
> >
> > Lintian supports some spell checking, including 'spelling error in
> > binary'. Maybe their power could be united?
> 
> That sounds a great idea.
> Could you please help me to understand the scale of it and its potential
> requirements, subtasks?

Just to note that there is also the codespell tool, also available in
Debian as a package.

However, both Lintian and codespell only try to detect misspellings, not
fix them.  In Lintian's case this is kind of obvious - it is supposed to
operate on the result of a build (even if source-only), so it cannot
really figure out where the source of the misspelling is.  For codespell
I wonder if the author didn't try to include any fixing functionality for
at least one major reason: some of the misspellings it detects are false
positives, sometimes these are real words, or variable or function names,
or domain-specific terms, or even (at least for the hexer and stunnel4
packages that I help maintain) actual words *in another language* :)

So, hm, it may be nice to have a tool that also corrects misspelled
words, but IMHO it should either be interactive or, at the very least,
support some kind of per-project whitelist of words that it should not
really try to correct.

In any case, thanks for trying to make Debian better, whatever direction
this happens to go into!

G'luck,
Peter

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Re: Bug#895712: ITP: misspell-fixer -- Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.

[Lajos Veres]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, kact...@gnu.org wrote:

> [2018-04-15 00:49] Lajos Veres 
> > [...]
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Reason: I have not found any sourcecode typofixer tool in Debian.
> > Some users also mentioned that their life would be a little easier
> > with a packaged version.
>
> Lintian supports some spell checking, including 'spelling error in
> binary'. Maybe their power could be united?

That sounds a great idea.
Could you please help me to understand the scale of it and its potential
requirements, subtasks?

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Re: Bug#895712: ITP: misspell-fixer -- Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.

[KAction]

[2018-04-15 00:49] Lajos Veres 
> [...]
> 
> ---
>
> Reason: I have not found any sourcecode typofixer tool in Debian.
> Some users also mentioned that their life would be a little easier
> with a packaged version.

Lintian supports some spell checking, including 'spelling error in
binary'. Maybe their power could be united?


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Bug#895712: ITP: misspell-fixer -- Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.

[Lajos Veres]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lajos Veres 

* Package name: misspell-fixer
  Version : 2018.04.15
  Upstream Author : Lajos Veres 
* URL : https://github.com/vlajos/misspell-fixer
* License : BSD
  Programming Lang: Bash
  Description : Tool for fixing common misspellings, typos in source code.

 Utility to fix common misspellings, typos in source code.
 There are lots of typical misspellings in program code.
 Typically they are more eye-catching in the living code but they can easily
hide in comments, examples, samples, notes and documentation.
 With this utility you can fix a large number of them very quickly.

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Reason:
I have not found any sourcecode typofixer tool in Debian.
Some users also mentioned that their life would be a little easier with a
packaged version.