DidYouMean (or dym
) is a command-line spelling corrector written in rust utilizing Levenshtein distance. DidYouMean is for those moments when you know what a word sounds like, but you're not quite sure how it's spelled.
DidYouMean is available on the AUR as didyoumean-git
. You can install it using any AUR helper. Using paru
, the command would be as follows:
sh
paru -S didyoumean-git
evanjs very kindly packaged didyoumean
for NixOS. The command to install is as follows:
sh
nix-env install -iA nixpkgs.didyoumean
Run the following command to build dym
from source and install it in your home directory. Ensure that you have $CARGO_HOME/bin/
in your path.
sh
cargo install didyoumean
The build dependencies for this project are git
, rust
, rustc
, and cargo
. First, clone this repository, then run
sh
cargo run -- <args>
where <args>
are the command-line arguments you would pass the DidYouMean binary. Note that this is an unoptimized build contianing debug information so it runs much, much slower.