FYI: 1500+ typos, with suggested fixes

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 29 May 2012, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Running the following command spots over 1500 typos, and suggests fixes:
> 
>   $ git ls-files|misspellings -f -|grep -v '^ERROR:'|perl -pe \
>   's/^(.*?)\[(\d+)\]: (\w+) -> "(.*?)"$/sed -i '\''${2}s!$3!$4!'\'' $1/' > k

This command has some bugs in how it produces fixes, fixing them would 
make the output more useful in some cases:

> sed -i '1811s!MISCELANEOUS!Miscellaneous!' gcc/config/mn10300/mn10300.md

Should preserve the case of all-uppercase words.

> sed -i '2102s!hasnt!hasn't!' gcc/config/picochip/picochip.c

Needs to allow for the ' in the replacement string.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com