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From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 44675@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44675: guix lint: support for spellchecker or basic grammar
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 09:43:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeeynwm2.fsf@yucca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YIUZ4CqdTHGWtCTt@3900XT>

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On 2021-04-25, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:10:40PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> Control: tags 44675 +patch
>> 
>> On 2020-11-15, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> > Please consider a guix lint description/synopsis check for basic
>> > spelling, typo and rudimentary grammar issues.
>> ...
>> > Many of these are likely to be caught by most spell checking routines;
>> > I'm not sure if there is anything that would be implementable in pure
>> > guile, or it if would make sense to call out to an external
>> > spellchecker.
>> >
>> > Some of them might be harder, and obviously we do not want too many
>> > false positives, but no need to get perfectionist on solving this; even
>> > just checking for "This packages" would haved detected many of these
>> > issues!
>> 
>> In the attached patch, I've implemented a simple lint check for "This
>> packages", which has been fixed in ... 42 packages so far in the git
>> repository, so maybe this could help catch future ones!
>> 
>> I haven't implemented a more complicated spellchecker or grammar checker
>> or anything, but at least this is a start.
>> 
>> I think it is also within my skills to address "allows to" and "permits
>> to", if I'm not heading down the wrong path here...
>> 
>> 
>> live well,
>>   vagrant
>
> It might make more sense to name it something more like
> 'catch-common-typos' and to search for 'This packages', 'allows to',
> 'permits to', 'file-name' and then print out the different mistakes in
> the description. Then we can add more as we find them, rather than one
> check per mistake.

That makes sense, though 'This packages' is very straightforward and has
a simple recommendation to fix it, whereas 'allows to' requires more
complicated english skills to come up with the correct solution... it
could just simply flag those cases as "wrong" without a solution.

Basically, I already stretched my cargo-culting, er, guile skills just
to get something obvious fixed that I keep seeing over and over
again. It would be a good excercise for me to better learn guile to
extend to further typos, though ... limited time.

Playing whack-a-mole with typos does get tiring :)


live well,
  vagrant

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-16  1:53 bug#44675: guix lint: support for spellchecker or basic grammar Vagrant Cascadian
2020-11-16  5:55 ` zimoun
2021-04-21 23:10 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-04-22 16:42   ` Maxime Devos
2021-04-22 17:57     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-04-22 18:05       ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-04 16:40       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-09 15:33         ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-10-21 23:18           ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-10-22  8:33             ` zimoun
2021-10-24 11:22               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-10-24 11:56                 ` zimoun
2021-10-24 19:02                   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-10-24 21:41                     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-04-25  7:27   ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-25 16:43     ` Vagrant Cascadian [this message]

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