On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently what they're doing is charging 0 for a transposition (which
> we don't have as a separate concept), 2 for a substitution, 1 for an
> insertion, and 3 for a deletion, with the constraint that anything
> with a total distance of more than 6 isn't considered. And that does
> overall seem to give pretty good suggestions.
The git people know that no git command is longer than 4 or 5
characters. That doesn't apply to us. I certainly would not like to
have an absolute distance test of n characters.
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Peter Geoghegan
