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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
FILES
EXAMPLE
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NAME

mwic - Misspelled Words In Context

SYNOPSIS

mwic [-l lang ] [ option ...] [ file ...]

DESCRIPTION

mwic is a spell-checker that groups possible misspellings and shows them in their contexts. This is useful for checking technical documents, which often contain words that are not included in standard dictionaries.

OPTIONS

-l lang , --language lang

Spell-check for this language. The default is en .

--list-languages

Print list of available languages.

--blacklist file

Treat words from the external dictionary as misspelled. The dictionary can be in the format used by Lintian , or in the format used by codespell , or in the format used by kde-spellcheck (part of kde-dev-scripts ); or it can be plain newline-separated word list. This option can be used multiple times.

--camel-case

Split camel-cased compound words. For example, treat “eggBaconAndSpam” as 4 separate words.

--input-encoding enc

Assume this input encoding. The default is UTF-8:replace (UTF-8 encoding with error handler replacing malformed characters with U+FFFD).

-f fmt , --output-format fmt

If fmt is plain , output plain text verbatim and highlight misspellings with the ˆ character. This is the default if stdout is not a terminal.

If fmt is color , escape control characters and highlight misspellings with colors. This is the default if stdout is a terminal.

-r , --reverse

Print words in reverse order, that is, the most common words first.

--compact

Omit blank lines in output.

--limit n

Assume that words that occurred more than n times are spelled correctly.

--max-context-width n

Limit context width to n characters. The default is 30.

--suggest n

Suggest up to n corrections.

-h , --help

Show help message and exit.

--version

Show version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

	PAGER		If stdout is a terminal, mwic pipes the output through $PAGER . The default is pager (if it exists) or more .
	LESS		If this variable is unset, mwic sets it to -FX , or to -FXR if the output is in color.
	LV		If this variable in unset, and the output is in color, mwic sets this variable to -c .

FILES

Spell-checking can be eased by using dictionaries of commonly misspelled words. mwic doesn’t ship with one, but it can use a number of dictionaries from third-party projects:

•

Lintian:

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/raw/master/data/spelling/corrections
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/raw/master/data/spelling/corrections-case

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Linux kernel:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/scripts/spelling.txt

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codespell:

https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/raw/master/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt

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kde-dev-scripts:

https://github.com/KDE/kde-dev-scripts/raw/master/kde-spellcheck.pl

EXAMPLE

$ mwic --blacklist /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections --compact rfc1927.txt
heirarchical:
| …g paper clips vs small ones; heirarchical assembly
ˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆ
multipart:
| …tes the degree of binding of multipart documents:
ˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆ
reycled:
| 1) staples could be reycled for a small credit
ˆˆˆˆˆˆˆ

...

EMail, edu, isi:
| EMail: rogers@isi.edu
ˆˆˆˆˆ ˆˆˆ ˆˆˆ
electonic:
| drawer of the electonic desk on home PCs
| 3) electonic staples should have a standa…
ˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆ