Behavior change: Dropping word stemming
Josh Soref edited this page Feb 25, 2024
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The engine behind the word splitter has code to group related words together (this is known as "stemming").
| Word | Stem |
|---|---|
customwords |
customword |
customworded |
customword |
customwordies |
customwordy |
This allows one to add just a single entry (the stem) to a dictionary / expect list. It had a number of folds including
-s-ed-ies
The downside to this stemming is that if a repo has both potato and potatos, the latter was treated as a stem of the former and they were collectively accepted if the former is in the dictionary.
As of 0.0.17-alpha, I'm removing this feature. Those upgrading will probably need to add extra items to their dictionary / expect files. For check-spelling itself, that amounted to 6 new entries out of under 100, so about 6%.