From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Reitter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:00:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <47F4A79C.6000006@alice.it> <47F4CD60.8010802@gmx.at> <47F4FDB9.6010306@gmx.at> <47F5040B.2070900@gmail.com> <47F51288.8000805@gmx.at> <47F51885.1090109@gmail.com> <47F54544.1050701@gmx.at> <47F54895.2070503@gmail.com> <47F54F85.4050206@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207260063 26796 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2008 22:01:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Claus , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Peter Heslin To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 00:01:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JhXUw-0007bR-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhXUK-0004sh-84 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhXUD-0004oG-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhXU9-0004ew-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhXU9-0004ei-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhXU8-0004Cg-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so1615900nfh.26 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:00:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=Edk/68N5MjUgc6OBORZR/lijlFWfMyKgMSRbQYcE0ms=; b=syYgX0FvM/rJv6yN01VIYwazVrXaG6AvkcoE3wKyc7+hM0s6YGQI93dnOgJCbu2BgDZHg4bqZeWba7FatJ04s4yxK123iu9C8DMhGC2gXGjA8eHpcUcVKTsmvKn6ZHEv/Uzke5sYjFU+p9pyF1gyHJzQbBe3z9EqlSiLm7uT6Uw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; b=apZCLaMH7GZyQrdBaWjFryZ8HJxL+LzC9kbYOBx2PxM0aX21fpzW7aDYZlLKyKx3ZDahTHYfAzes5JCEM5cL0chFPNF7nzHIbJ9BetehCyRdaQqKxBZgUafE6ijixDnUCpjB712boDPPBwFkOnTCF1V14h3II1gFpR15RHhfiOM= Original-Received: by 10.78.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr1348379hub.16.1207260038733; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from scarlett.lan ( [89.242.130.219]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm1903397nfu.4.2008.04.03.15.00.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:00:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <47F54F85.4050206@gmx.at> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94288 Archived-At: On 3 Apr 2008, at 22:43, martin rudalics wrote: > > Spell-checking is a typical task for word processors - and they are > very > successful doing this kind of job. The story of Ispell and Aspell, on > the other hand, is a rather sad one - IMHO. Does any of the packages (yours, Peter's) define a clear API to integrate other spell-checkers than Ispell/Aspell? The OS may offer spell-checking facilities, and it would make for better integration (and also better spell-checking in my case) if that was supported. Also note that modern text services go beyond spell-checking: grammar checking, if done right, can be very helpful, too. If there was a clear API, people could create the necessary components to integrate such services. Such an API should allow the service to spell-check more than one word at a time, and it should define text filtering hooks so we don't pass each \begin{itemize} to the spell-checker when in latex-mode. [If there is such an API already, can you please point me to its documentation?]