[Backport maintenance/3.3.x] Fix typo in missing-member-hint-distance documentation

examples/pylintrc

@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ ignored-classes=optparse.Values,thread._local,_thread._local,argparse.Namespace
 # of finding the hint is based on edit distance.
 missing-member-hint=yes
 
-# The minimum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
+# The maximum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
 # similar match for a missing member name.
 missing-member-hint-distance=1
 

examples/pyproject.toml

@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ ignored-classes = [ "optparse.Values", "thread._local", "_thread._local", "argpa
 # finding the hint is based on edit distance.
 missing-member-hint = true
 
-# The minimum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
+# The maximum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
 # similar match for a missing member name.
 missing-member-hint-distance = 1
 

pylint/checkers/typecheck.py

@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ class TypeChecker(BaseChecker):
                 "default": 1,
                 "type": "int",
                 "metavar": "<member hint edit distance>",
-                "help": "The minimum edit distance a name should have in order "
+                "help": "The maximum edit distance a name should have in order "
                 "to be considered a similar match for a missing member name.",
             },
         ),

pylintrc

@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ ignore-on-opaque-inference=yes
 # of finding the hint is based on edit distance.
 missing-member-hint=yes
 
-# The minimum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
+# The maximum edit distance a name should have in order to be considered a
 # similar match for a missing member name.
 missing-member-hint-distance=1