Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: increase error-prone spell checking

From: Naoki Hayama
Date: Thu Jan 21 2021 - 04:52:31 EST


Dear Joe,

On 2021/01/21 18:36, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 18:14 +0900, Naoki Hayama wrote:
>> On 2021/01/21 17:41, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
>>> On 21/01/21 04:21, Chunyou Tang wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:09:05 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 19:02 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/20/21 6:07 PM, ChunyouTang wrote:
>>>>>>> From: tangchunyou <tangchunyou@xxxxxxxxxx>
> []
>>>>>>> diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt
>>>>> []
>>>>>>> @@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ manger||manager
>>>>>>>  manoeuvering||maneuvering
>>>>>>>  manufaucturing||manufacturing
>>>>>>>  mappping||mapping
>>>>>>> +maping||mapping
>>>>>>>  matchs||matches
>>>>>>>  mathimatical||mathematical
>>>>>>>  mathimatic||mathematic
> []
>> Rules in scripts/spelling.txt are sorted
>> alphabetically by leftside words. It would
>> be better that you insert "maping||mapping"
>> rule between:
>>
>> "manufaucturing||manufacturing"
>> and
>> "mappping||mapping" .
>
> That's not really true. Try a diff of $ sort < scripts/spelling.txt
>
> The general rule of thumb, and it's only a rule of thumb and it is
> not strictly enforced, is that similar misspellings are grouped
> together.
>
>

Thank you for pointing out. I misunderstood about it.
Sorry for the confusion.