2 responses to “codespell 1.0.1”

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  Ricardo Guiraldelli April 24th, 2011 at 04:58

  Lucas,

  Congratulations for you software: certainly it comes to correct errors in the most used kind of languages — natural ones!

  A question: why have you developed a new software insted of add functionaly to [i|a]spell?

  I am sure you do have a smart answer, as usual!

  Congratulations, again!

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    Lucas De Marchi April 24th, 2011 at 06:48

    Thanks Ricardo.

    I developed it because the final goal is to fix misspellings in source code. Sure you could use [i|a]spell for documentation, but inside the source code it’s not the same rules that apply. E.g. I’m planning to add support for toggling the fixes only for strings / comments / code in the next version.

    Moreover, [i|a]spell would do an all-words-might-be-wrong and this is really not what we want. Try to enable your spelling program while you are editing a piece of code and see how many false positives there would be.

    Oww.. and don’t forget there’s a new release that fixes some bugs