Re: [PATCH] maint: spelling fixes

2012-02-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > I pushed these gnulib spelling fixes as obvious and trivial. Thanks a lot! While most of them were really typos, I didn't know that "verification" doesn't have a plural form. Bruno

Re: [PATCH] maint: spelling fixes

2012-02-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jim Meyering writes: > It would be nice to have a batch spell-checker that we could run > periodically. There's codespell: http://git.profusion.mobi/cgit.cgi/lucas/codespell/ I haven't used it. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: [PATCH] maint: spelling fixes

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Eggert
On 02/05/2012 11:47 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > What tool do you use for that? It's a pretty awful script (please see below) which I originally developed for Emacs. It has many false positives, and the trick is to be able to scan its output quickly looking for the real positives. Perhaps someone som

Re: [PATCH] maint: spelling fixes

2012-02-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > I pushed these gnulib spelling fixes as obvious and trivial. > My fave was "Free Softward Foundation". Thanks! What tool do you use for that? It would be nice to have a batch spell-checker that we could run periodically.

[PATCH] maint: spelling fixes

2012-02-05 Thread Paul Eggert
I pushed these gnulib spelling fixes as obvious and trivial. My fave was "Free Softward Foundation". --- NEWS|4 ++-- build-aux/update-copyright |6 +++--- doc/gnulib.texi |4 ++-- doc/intprops.texi |4