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

[arnold]

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