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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: fix TYPO_SPELLING check for words with apostrophe
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On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 12:53 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> checkpatch reports a false TYPO_SPELLING warning for some words
> containing an apostrophe when run with --codespell option.
>
> A false positive is "doesn't". Occurrence of the word causes
> checkpatch to emit the following warning:
>
> "WARNING: 'doesn'' may be misspelled - perhaps 'doesn't'?"
>
> Modify the regex pattern to be more in line with the codespell
> default word matching regex. This fixes the word capture and
> avoids the false warning.
>
> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Reported-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Use the default codespell word regex.
> - Modify commit message to specify --codespell usage
>
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3106,7 +3106,7 @@ sub process {
>  # Check for various typo / spelling mistakes
>   if (defined($misspellings) &&
>   ($in_commit_log || $line =~ /^(?:\+|Subject:)/i)) {
> - while ($rawline =~ /(?:^|[^a-z@])($misspellings)(?:\b|$|[^a-z@])/gi) {
> + while ($rawline =~ /(?:^|[^\w\-'`])($misspellings)(?:[^\w\-'`]|$)/gi) {

This regex seems to work well, thanks.

>   my $typo = $1;

A trivial improvement might be to highlight the location of the
misspelled word with a caret using

my $blank = copy_spacing($rawline);
my $ptr = substr($blank, 0, $-[0] + 1) . "^";
my $hereptr = "$hereline$ptr\n";

>   my $typo_fix = $spelling_fix{lc($typo)};
>   $typo_fix = ucfirst($typo_fix) if ($typo =~ /^[A-Z]/);

and using $hereptr and not $hereline when emitting the message.


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