Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:40:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:40:25 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:63975 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:40:24 -0500 Message-Id: <200303020317.h223GN9c003631@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> To: Dan Kegel cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer , Joe Perches , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mike@aiinc.ca Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Mar 2003 10:54:22 -0800." <3E6101DE.5060301@kegel.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:16:23 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 28 Dan Kegel said: [...] > Smashing! However, it should probably avoid correcting spellings > in anything but C comments. Right. > Perhaps my C comment parser should be converted to perl and > incorporated into spell-fix.pl, and used to divide the source > file into two streams (comment and noncomment); the comment > stream would be spell-fixed and merged back with the noncomment > stream to create the output. I wouldn't go that far. Better give a list of speling mistakes (file/line) and fix them by hand. It won't need to be done more than occasionally, so the overhead is not too bad. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/