Re: The Second Great Spelling Check (Re: Package descriptions and making them better)
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:23:31PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>
> > - Word joining
> >
> > Technical terms seem to lend themselves to the formation of new words
> > through joining, e.g. "lowlevel", "mousewheel", "bugreport". In cases
> > where the joined form is a common technical term, I allowed it, and in
> > most other cases I recommended hyphenation or splitting into two words.
> > The rationale was to allow for keyword searches to work as expected, so
> > there were few hard and fast rules.
>
> This is not necessary. "apt-cache search" is capable of dealing with
> things that have embedded spaces, and if it isn't the bug is in apt.
> Package descriptions should all be good decent English.
Eh? apt-cache search is a case-insensitive extended regular expression
search. I spoke of a keyword search, which using apt-cache would look like:
apt-cache search "[[:<:]]bug[[:>:]]"
Such a search would not match "bugreport" or "buggery", but would match (the
more correct) "bug report". It was my intention for this kind of search to
work.
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- mdz
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