Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker

From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mike@aiinc.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:21:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E61BF1B.7040706@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046578585.2544.451.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>

jw schultz <jw () pegasys ! ws> wrote:

> An ispell filter seems a simpler approach to me. (ispell -F
> filter) I use that (shown here to head off requests) for
> email so quoted content is ignored.  A similar filter for C
> source would make this trivial.
> 
> $ grep ispell .muttrc
> set ispell="ispell -F maildequote"
> $ cat bin/maildequote
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> while (<STDIN>)
> {
>         /^[>|] / || /^On .* wrote:$/ and tr[A-Za-z][_];
>         print $_;
> }
> print "\004";

Integrating in to existing spellcheckers is a Good Idea,
though it might not totally replace the perl script Matthias
wrote (does ispell have a batch mode that works on whole
directory trees?).

BTW, ispell on my system is gnu aspell,
and I couldn't tell for the life of me from the manual
whether it supports this kind of filter.
Nor could I find any doc on ispell filters.
Where's the best place to learn about 'em?
- Dan

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