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      1  1.2  msaitoh 	$NetBSD: TODO,v 1.2 2019/12/27 10:20:01 msaitoh Exp $
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      3  1.1    perry Things to do with spell(1)
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      5  1.1    perry a) This code needs to be made WARNSable. Right now it isn't.
      6  1.1    perry b) Make sure that we are very compatible with the SVID and Solaris
      7  1.1    perry    versions of the command (since those are the best models we have,
      8  1.1    perry    there being no SuS spec.)
      9  1.1    perry c) Perhaps the last BSD version of /usr/dict/words that was 32V
     10  1.1    perry    derived should be merged in to the modern /usr/dict/words file. It
     11  1.1    perry    has a bunch of useful additions over the original 32V file etc.
     12  1.1    perry d) The code should be commented and cleaned. The code style is very
     13  1.1    perry    1970s.
     14  1.1    perry e) The way this works is bad. All the rules of how to deal with
     15  1.1    perry    spelling, suffixes, etc, are hard-coded in. That made sense in v7,
     16  1.1    perry    but it doesn't any more.
     17  1.1    perry f) The word search algorithm might be made better. millert turned it
     18  1.2  msaitoh    into a binary search from the original hash mechanism.
     19  1.1    perry g) Also, the general mode that this program works in is VERY 1970s --
     20  1.1    perry    it just spits out a list of words that are misspelled without
     21  1.1    perry    context. By merging spell and spellprog, and doing a wee bit of
     22  1.1    perry    hacking, it should be possible to do things like complaining about
     23  1.1    perry    the line number that things are misspelled on etc.
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