speling tool

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 10/26/2016 09:22 PM, timeless wrote:
> Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>> +                            # the remainig bit and drop this line
> remaining ;-)
>
> -- I really should try to put together a version of my spelling tool
> as a test to see what people think.
>
> I'd envision it running w/ a stored cache of allowed words, each run
> of the test would generate a new word list, diff it with the old one,
> and complain about words that aren't in the old one and aren't in the
> user's dictionary. It could also be adjusted to only complain about
> words of length {x,y} instead of {1,Inf}...

That sounds kind of like 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2012-August/043846.html 
(early version) that I use for patches like 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2016-October/089492.html 
.

We do however use a lot of weird words so it seems like unless we limit 
the scope a lot, there will inherently be more false hits than genuine 
catches.

/Mads