refactor: restrict spell check to word bounded tokens

jdkato · jdkato · commit 992fddb4b919 · 2025-01-20T15:19:57.000-08:00
diff --git a/internal/check/spelling.go b/internal/check/spelling.go
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ func addExceptions(s *Spelling, generic baseCheck, cfg *core.Config) error { //n
 	}
 
 	for _, term := range cfg.AcceptedTokens {
+		// NOTE: This is used to ensure that we are excluding whole words
+		// rather than substrings.
+		//
+		// The assumption is that, for spell checking, we don't want to
+		// flag words that are part of a larger word.
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(term, "\b") && !strings.HasSuffix(term, "\b") {
+			term = `\b` + term + `\b`
+		}
 		s.Exceptions = append(s.Exceptions, term)
 		s.exceptRe = regexp2.MustCompileStd(
 			ignoreCase + strings.Join(s.Exceptions, "|"))
diff --git a/testdata/features/fragments.feature b/testdata/features/fragments.feature
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Feature: Fragments
             """
             test.cc:6:14:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'objectmodel'?
             test.cc:14:17:Vale.Repetition:'the' is repeated!
+            test.cc:20:5:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'QObjects'?
             test.cc:47:12:Vale.Repetition:'the' is repeated!
             test.go:2:14:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'implments'?
             test.go:10:4:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'Println'?
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ Feature: Fragments
             test.js:28:4:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'getCases'?
             test.py:3:13:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'parap'?
             test.py:13:35:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'vaiable'?
+            test.py:13:58:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'docstrings'?
             test.py:18:29:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'docmentation'?
             test.py:20:20:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'ducmenation'?
             test.py:24:13:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'parapp'?
@@ -41,7 +43,11 @@ Feature: Fragments
             test2.py:216:38:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'pragma'?
             test2.py:219:35:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'noqa'?
             test2.py:246:39:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'vaiable'?
+            test2.py:246:62:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'docstrings'?
             test2.py:252:36:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'vaiable'?
             test2.rs:47:42:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'vrsion'?
+            test2.rs:154:5:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'RGArg'?
+            test2.rs:165:26:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'argumet'?
+            test2.rs:409:38:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'RGArg'?
             test2.rs:2860:34:Vale.Spelling:Did you really mean 'conlicts'?
             """
