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Re: FYI: 1500+ typos, with suggested fixes
Arnaud Charlet wrote:
>> Also note: the line numbers listed below work for me with yesterday's
>> up-to-date trunk, but if you want to use these commands, you should rerun
>> the commands above so that the line numbers reflect your actual sources.
>> )
>>
>> This is just a heads up.
>> I'm not volunteering to make these changes.
>
> FWIW, there are many false positives on the gcc/ada directory (missing
> Ada specific notions and acronyms). A few real typo fixes also of course,
> but the ratio does not look very good.
In any list of that size, at least a few are guaranteed to be false positives.
That's why I wrote this part:
> (Note that these sed commands are just suggestions that do not take
> into account any context ...
The figure of 1500+ was rounded down from the actual total of 1586 suggestions.
Eliminating the FPs matching /TJE|TEH|STPO|withing/i reduces that to 1501.