Hi Simon,
Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> writes:
> I've been using 'codespell' to find typos in several projects for a long
> time, via ad-hoc syntax-check rules in cfg.mk. I tried to clean up the
> rule and make it generic enough to be useful everywhere. I've pushed
> the attached patch, which includes some hints for cfg.mk configuration
> to avoid false positives. Every project seem to have a couple of small
> strings that trigger false positives, but I've not found any least
> common denominator so it seems simplest to silence this per project.
> I've noticed that newer versions of codespell is better than older
> versions at spotting various kind of typos.
Emacs has the following:
$ find admin/codespell/ -type f
admin/codespell/README
admin/codespell/codespell.dictionary
admin/codespell/codespell.exclude
admin/codespell/codespell.ignore
admin/codespell/codespell.rc
Which might help make this syntax-check more customizable. Particularly
the dictionary seems helpful since it can have mappings like
'file-writeable-p->file-writable-p'.
Just an idea, I have not used it much.
Collin
