Re: ispelling lisp buffers

[stephen@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Eglen (CNS))]

Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> is there some smart ispell command which is suitable for ispelling
> source-code like emacs-lisp. Smart means that only comments and maybe strings
> should be ispelled, nothing else!
> 
> Thanks for any pointer,
> Klaus

I have this in my .emacs file, not sure if it still works.

Stephen
;;From: Sam Shteingold <sshteingold@cctrading.com>
;;Subject: Spell check only comments and string literals: 
;; ispell-comments-strings
;;Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources

(defun ispell-comments-strings (beg end)
  "Spell-check the comments and string literals in the region.
This quick hack assumes that initially we are inside neither.
Also, it sometimes needs a C-g in the end."
  (interactive "r")
  (let ((ispell-check-comments t) be)
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char beg)
      (while (< (point) end)
	(if 
	 (setq be (re-search-forward 
		   (concat "[^\\]\"\\|" (or comment-start "")) end t))
	 (ispell-region 
	  be (if (char-equal ?\" (char-after (1- (point))))
		 (or (re-search-forward "[^\\]\"" end t) (goto-char end))
		 (if (string= comment-end "") 
		     (progn (end-of-line) (point))
		     (or (re-search-forward comment-end end t) 
			 (goto-char end))))))))))