Should help.autocorrect be on by default?

Brian Bartels· Sep 30, 2021, 17:15 UTC · lore

This would save developers precious inner loop time. I looked at the code and it already handles cases where the environment isn't interactive. So this should be a pretty minor configuration change.

Let me know what you think, Brian

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason· Sep 30, 2021, 23:16 UTC · re: Brian Bartels · lore

Re: Should help.autocorrect be on by default?

On Thu, Sep 30 2021, Brian Bartels wrote:

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> This would save developers precious inner loop time. I looked at the
> code and it already handles cases where the environment isn't
> interactive. So this should be a pretty minor configuration change.
>
> Let me know what you think,
> Brian

I haven't looked myself, but it's very informative to browse the list archives at https://lore.kernel.org/git/ (search for help.autocorrect) to see if this has been brought up before, whether there were any arguments for/against, or if it was just an arbitrary (or careful due to a new feature) default at the time.

That and trying your hand at flipping the default via a patch, running the tests, seeing if any fail & fixing them is also a good way to both get the ball rolling, and to discover any past opinions about what should/shouldn't be the default added as code/tests at the time.