Re: Codespell report for "gawk" (on fossies.org)

[Wolfgang Laun]

FWIW, I've written a script that processes the Fossies output, skipping the
"dangerous" fixes (as indicated in my previous mail).
-W

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 14:07, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Fossies Administrator <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > but it seems one
> > > can just run "codespell" in command line with excluded words/files
> > > provided by fossies.org:
> > >
> https://fossies.org/linux/misc/gawk-5.0.1.tar.xz/codespell_conf.html#excl_words
> >
> > Yes, I forgot to mentioned that option. But I think this comfortable
> > method is per se a bit dangerous and at least afterwards the source code
> > differences have to be checked manually and corrected if necessary.
>
> I agree. At least for me, I don't want to rely on a machine generated
> diff and then hope I can catch all its mistakes. It's better to manually
> fix things once, and then periodically check it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
>