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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: 44675@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44675: guix lint: support for spellchecker or basic grammar
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 10:27:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIUZ4CqdTHGWtCTt@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tunznsi7.fsf@yucca>

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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.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25  7:29 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 [this message]
2021-04-25 16:43     ` Vagrant Cascadian

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