* improve your spell checking in emacs
@ 2012-04-15 11:19 Xah Lee
2012-04-15 11:55 ` Deniz Dogan
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From: Xah Lee @ 2012-04-15 11:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
improve your spell checking in emacs.
Add the following to the file 〔~/.aspell.en.pws〕.
personal_ws-1.1 en 103
backtick
meritable
proven
manual's
dialogue
utopian
programable
employability
downloadable
thru
heterogeneousness
euphemized
miscommunication
login
inline
immersive
fandom
proselytization
youngling
microcephalic
endianness
pinky
one's
natively
liers
chantable
screenshots
online
lol
blockquote
exemplarily
programer's
programers
neuroscientist
lookup
exposit
hotkey
blocky
builtin
ubiquitousness
blogging
spammer
screenshot
weblog
programer
subfolders
superset
datatype
keybinding
other's
malware
blogs
toruses
polytope
combinatorics
incenter
automata
Calculational
regex
regex's
Logitech
Google
ErgoEmacs
Firefox
FSF
FSF's
Cygwin
Blogger
unix
Solaris
Google's
Googlers
Ubuntu
Erlang
Mathematica
Mathematica's
OCaml
Scala
perl's
JScript
newLISP
Clojure
perl
elisp
javascript
JavaScript
MySQL
Prolog
PowerShell
PHP
LaTeX
emacs
emacs's
unixes
linux
Unixers
unixers
Ctrl
Picasa
PhotoShop
Wikipedia
Blog
detailed rant at: http://xahlee.org/comp/aspell_vocabulary.html
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* Re: improve your spell checking in emacs
2012-04-15 11:19 improve your spell checking in emacs Xah Lee
@ 2012-04-15 11:55 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-04-15 14:06 ` Jai Dayal
2012-04-17 8:09 ` Ivan Kanis
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From: Deniz Dogan @ 2012-04-15 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Do you really think that people will take this list and go "ah, much
better"? "Awesome, finally 'proselytization' is recognized"?
Your writing style is pretty out there, e.g. lower-casing "emacs" but
capitalizing "Mathematica" and then camel-casing "PhotoShop". Why even
use spell checking if you're going to use odd spellings such as "thru"
and "programer"? How often do you actually type "ubiquitousness"?
This has _nothing_ to do with Emacs, yet you send it to two newsgroups
and a mailing list, all about Emacs. Sorry, but this is nothing but
spam to get more hits on your web page. It's a bit ironic that you
added the word "spammer" to your dictionary.
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* Re: improve your spell checking in emacs
2012-04-15 11:55 ` Deniz Dogan
@ 2012-04-15 14:06 ` Jai Dayal
2012-04-15 19:47 ` Deniz Dogan
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2012-04-17 8:09 ` Ivan Kanis
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From: Jai Dayal @ 2012-04-15 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Deniz Dogan; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
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two emacs related newsgroups? What's the other one?
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> wrote:
> Do you really think that people will take this list and go "ah, much
> better"? "Awesome, finally 'proselytization' is recognized"?
>
> Your writing style is pretty out there, e.g. lower-casing "emacs" but
> capitalizing "Mathematica" and then camel-casing "PhotoShop". Why even use
> spell checking if you're going to use odd spellings such as "thru" and
> "programer"? How often do you actually type "ubiquitousness"?
>
> This has _nothing_ to do with Emacs, yet you send it to two newsgroups and
> a mailing list, all about Emacs. Sorry, but this is nothing but spam to
> get more hits on your web page. It's a bit ironic that you added the word
> "spammer" to your dictionary.
>
>
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2012-04-15 11:55 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-04-15 14:06 ` Jai Dayal
@ 2012-04-17 8:09 ` Ivan Kanis
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From: Ivan Kanis @ 2012-04-17 8:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs help
Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> wrote:
> This has _nothing_ to do with Emacs, yet you send it to two newsgroups
> and a mailing list, all about Emacs. Sorry, but this is nothing but
> spam to get more hits on your web page. It's a bit ironic that you
> added the word "spammer" to your dictionary.
Totally agree.
Since we are talking of improving your spell checking there is
bbdb-ispell in bbdb v3.0 that will export selected bbdb fields to your
personal dictionary.
Ivan
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@ 2012-04-17 5:17 ` Tami
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From: Tami @ 2012-04-17 5:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xahlee; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Thank you VERY much Xah Lee!
THere are SO many words that need to be spelled every day. For decades I have
been building my own word list to augment the totally inadequate "dictionary"
that came with ispell so long ago.
Some are specific- like friends' names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. All
such belong in personal wordlists.
But yesterday and today I got completely tied into a mental knot over the word
"surveillance". I actually opened the "spelling dictionary" in emacs. THere
were very few words in the original dictionary. "Surveillance" was not 0ne of
those words!
I tried looking it up on wictionary, but since I didn't know how to spell it
(duh!) wictionary told me there was no such word. It does not have the "do you
mean ..." feature that google has perfected. Today, (after some sleep) tried
wikipedia (which Does use the "do you mean..." function and I copied the word
from there (and learned to spell it in the ordeal).
THe entire process took over 90 minutes total and revealed to me how TERRIBLY
inadequate the spellchecker dictionaries are.
I expect to have to use my own (hardcopy, paper) medical dictionaries to
confirm spellings for most of the medical vocabulary words I use (before I add
them to my permanent list) - but "surveillance"? really?? -- well, it is used
in public health and epidemiology... but I associate it with governmental TLAs
and drones.
So thank you very much for the additional words.
I accept all of them gratefully.
Maybe if we all share our words, we can contribute a more robust dictionary to
the GNU project.
.Tami
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tami@GNUrse.org
On 2012 April 15 Xah Lee wrote: > improve your spell checking in
emacs. > Add the following to the file "/.aspell.en.pws"
> personal_ws-1.1 en 103
> backtick
> meritable
> proven
> manual's
> dialogue
> utopian
> programable
> employability
> downloadable
> thru
> heterogeneousness
> euphemized
> miscommunication
> login
> inline
> immersive
> fandom
> proselytization
> youngling
> microcephalic
> endianness
> pinky
> one's
> natively
> liers
> chantable
> screenshots
> online
> lol
> blockquote
> exemplarily
> programer's
> programers
> neuroscientist
> lookup
> exposit
> hotkey
> blocky
> builtin
> ubiquitousness
> blogging
> spammer
> screenshot
> weblog
> programer
> subfolders
> superset
> datatype
> keybinding
> other's
> malware
> blogs
> toruses
> polytope
> combinatorics
> incenter
> automata
> Calculational
> regex
> regex's
> Logitech
> Google
> ErgoEmacs
> Firefox
> FSF
> FSF's
> Cygwin
> Blogger
> unix
> Solaris
> Google's
> Googlers
> Ubuntu
> Erlang
> Mathematica
> Mathematica's
> OCaml
> Scala
> perl's
> JScript
> newLISP
> Clojure
> perl
> elisp
> javascript
> JavaScript
> MySQL
> Prolog
> PowerShell
> PHP
> LaTeX
> emacs
> emacs's
> unixes
> linux
> Unixers
> unixers
> Ctrl
> Picasa
> PhotoShop
> Wikipedia
> Blog
>
> detailed rant at: http://xahlee.org/comp/aspell_vocabulary.html
>
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@ 2012-04-17 10:41 ` Chiron
2012-04-17 14:46 ` Dan Espen
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From: Chiron @ 2012-04-17 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:17:37 -0500, Tami wrote:
<snip>
> THe entire process took over 90 minutes total and revealed to me how
> TERRIBLY inadequate the spellchecker dictionaries are.
>
Google itself is pretty good with helping you find words you don't know
how to spell. I've seldom had to search very hard when I just enter the
word (spelled as I think it *might* be) and let Google figure out which
one I was hoping for. When it does, it then usually lists wiktionary or
wikipedia as among the first links.
I'm quite sure there are some collaborative spelling lists out there. In
fact, I seem to recall something called the "moby" whatever; I guess
"moby" signifies huge size, like Moby Dick. Whatever...
--
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
-- W. C. Bennett
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2012-04-17 10:41 ` Chiron
@ 2012-04-17 14:46 ` Dan Espen
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From: Dan Espen @ 2012-04-17 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Tami <kd5rju@wb5aoh.dyndns.org> writes:
> But yesterday and today I got completely tied into a mental knot over the word
> "surveillance".
How did you spell it?
I find M-$ usually does a pretty good guess.
It comes up with the right answer for these:
survalence
sirveilance
Google search is pretty good too.
--
Dan Espen
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