Messages in this thread | | | From | Lucas De Marchi <> | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:45:12 -0300 | Subject | Re: [RFC] Fix typos |
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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 23:29, Phillip Lougher <phil.lougher@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Lucas De Marchi > <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:18, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote: > >>> I'm not so sure about "is rose up" being better. and what about "ar"? >> >> I'm only changing words with 3 chars or more, because otherwise I >> would have a lot of false positives, but I think I can add this word >> without much trouble. >> > > The problem with "ar" is it is too short to know for certain what it > should be... "ar" though likely a typo for "are" could also be a typo > for e.g. "arm", "arc", "arg", "ark", and "arp". > > Perhaps in this and similar cases the script should flag these errors > for human attention rather than automatically fixing them.
Yes, after enabling it I've saw a lot of false positives and wrong fixes. Even cases where "ar" was the correct one, referring to the ar tool.
Now, I put this together with other warnings.
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