From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Cross-referencing frenzy
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:25:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010419102508.A426@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010418233445.A28628@thyrsus.com> <20010419090220.A2291@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010419091623.D31701@thyrsus.com> <3ADEF360.45B4F4E8@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3ADEF360.45B4F4E8@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:17:04AM -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> > CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI: arch/ppc/configs/power3_defconfig arch/arm/def-configs/footbridge arch/arm/def-configs/rpc arch/arm/def-configs/lart arch/arm/def-configs/shark
>
> typo, that should be ...YMFPCI.
>
> maybe you could add soundex to catch misspellings ;-)
Don't laugh. I considered it -- only not with soundex but with
Ratcliff/Obershelp gestalt similarity matching, which is better at
catching this sort of typo. Python has a module for this; I could make
it happen with about two hours' work.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself
a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about
repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the
great struggle for independence.
-- Attributed to Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-19 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-19 3:34 Cross-referencing frenzy Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-19 4:00 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-19 4:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-19 4:36 ` Edward S. Marshall
2001-04-19 5:06 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-19 5:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-19 9:26 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-19 13:36 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-19 15:22 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-04-19 5:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-19 5:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-19 11:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 4:49 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-19 13:23 ` Mike Castle
2001-04-19 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19 17:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-19 20:53 ` Jim Treadway
2001-04-19 8:02 ` Russell King
2001-04-19 13:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-19 14:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-19 14:25 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-04-19 18:49 ` [kbuild-devel] " Peter Samuelson
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