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If misspelling is one of the main problems than it would be interesting to have suggestions based on how similar a word was to another, so that you could have something similar to the rust compiler’s “<undefined variable name> does not exist, did you mean <defined variable name>”. I think it uses Levenshtein distance, and maybe some other algorithms/heuristics to pick it’s best guess.



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