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Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github

Posted by timothy on from the wye-wood-enny-wan-wan-thatte? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Github projects may be seeing a different kind of contributor than normal: a small bot is now crawling through projects, contributing spelling corrections. It builds on top of the github API and existing documentation style-checking code. Future directions for the project look beyond spelling mistakes and at automated bug fixing on a large scale."

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  1. #!/user/bin/pearl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this bot will do as well as every HR department out there posting "pearl" and "unique admin" positions

  2. Re:Yeah, I'm sure... by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry, some bot will fix that.

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  3. Oppressive autocorrection. by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clbuttic overaction, in my opinion. This buttbuttination of our writing by computers is out of hand. I don't know if my consbreastution can take it...

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  4. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong by Sarusa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I did notice that (pull request), but I secretly love the idea of a braindead iphone type spell corrector running around automatically changing 'strcpy' to 'stripy', or 'unlk' to 'unlink'. And then thinking you can fix it with even more complex regexps.