Add note about --exclude-file in README and update the help text also

[bwitt]

Add a quick note about using --exclude-file to exclude whole lines, and update the help text too

[peternewman]

I think I prefer your wording, but it would probably make sense if it matched the help file:
https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/blob/d598d5b/codespell_lib/_codespell.py#L347-L349

Or can you at least add your second sentence to the command help please.

[bwitt]

@peternewman I've updated both sets of text to try and bring them closer together; how does that look?

[peternewman]

Perhaps also take a look at @kolyshkin work in https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/pull/2040/files , I suspect their formatting of the METAVAR FILE should make things more readable (in the README file).

[bwitt]

formatted the FILE var in the README; I notice https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/pull/2040/files also rewords the descriptions in the README a bit (removing The ... flag can be used ...). Should we do the same here?

[peternewman]

I notice https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/pull/2040/files also rewords the descriptions in the README a bit (removing The ... flag can be used ...). Should we do the same here?

I suspect fewer words makes it easier to read, so that's probably a good idea.

[kolyshkin]

Can I suggest something like

    codespell -x FILE, --exclude-file=FILE
Ignore the whole lines that match those taken from ``FILE``.

[bwitt]

thanks! I've updated it; how does that look?

[kolyshkin]

@bwitt can you please squash your commits?

[bwitt]

squashed

[bwitt]

@peternewman how does this look?

[peternewman]

Just one minor tweak from me.

[peternewman]

LGTM.

I'll just give other people a chance to take a look before merging.

[peternewman]

@kolyshkin @DimitriPapadopoulos do you want to take another look?

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

It looks good to me. It is now much harder to misunderstand as line numbers.

[bwitt]

@peternewman rebased and squashed to one commit; please let me know if there's anything else I need to do.

[kolyshkin]

LGTM