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To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker 
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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:16:23 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> 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.
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