DidYouMean (or dym) is a command-line spelling corrector written in rust utilizing a simplified version of Damerau-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 three different packages:
- didyoumean: Last stable release, built from source (Thank you orhun!).
- didyoumean-git: Last git commit, built from source. This is the most up to date, but the least stable.
- didyoumean-bin: Last stable release, distributed as a binary. This is only available for
x86_64at the moment.
You can install it using any AUR helper. Using paru, the command would be as follows:
paru -S <package choice from above>Homebrew is a package manager for macOS. Currently, I have only packaged an x86_64 binary. The command to install it is as follows:
brew tap hisbaan/tap
brew install didyoumeanevanjs very kindly packaged didyoumean for NixOS. The command to install is as follows:
nix-env install -iA nixpkgs.didyoumeanRun 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.
cargo install didyoumeanThe build dependencies for this project are git, rust, rustc, and cargo. First, clone this repository, then run
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.