Re: request a new feature in fuzzystrmatch

On 5/17/2013 8:23 AM, Atri Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Liming Hu <dawninghu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Atri,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> levenshtein edit distance defines operations of: insertion, deletion,
>> modification.
>> Levenshtein-Damerau edit distance defines operations of:  insertion,
>> deletion, modification
>> and transposition (
>> it will be two operations in levenshtein edit distance:
>> one deletion, and one insertion,
>> ).
>>
>> In spelling checker/corrector, i.e.
>>   levenshtein('cta', 'cat') will return 2.
>> but Levenshtein-Damerau('cta', 'cat') will return 1.
>> if the maximum error is 1, we can not get 'cat'.
>>
>> In practice, Levenshtein-Damerau is more widely used than Levenshtein.
>> I believe you notice "Google automated search suggestions", they use
>> Levenshtein-Damerau.
>>
> Sounds interesting. How can we build this over our current
> implementation, or do we need to build it from scratch?
>
> Regards,
>
> Atri
I know how to write the code, but just need approval of accepting into 
the new version.