From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spell Checking Date: 7 Jun 2005 14:00:09 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Message-ID: <42a5a869_3@news1.prserv.net> References: <1118025860.410843.208180@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118152303 14860 80.91.229.2 (7 Jun 2005 13:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:51:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 07 15:51:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfeMd-000137-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:43:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfeT9-0005y2-Nd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:50:15 -0400 X-Newsreader: xrn 9.02 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: 7 Jun 2005 14:00:09 GMT, yktgi01e0-s5.watson.ibm.com Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!news1.prserv.net!alpha.watson.ibm.com!kgold Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131846 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27313 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27313 "Shug Boabby" writes: > > i realise the flyspell and spell checking .el files heavily depend upon > spell/ispell/aspell being installed on the system, but many modern GUI > libs (such as GTK+2 with GtkSpell and OS X's Aqua/Cocoa) have the > ability to add spell checking to any text-input window. can anyone see > this kind of spellchecking becoming available in GNU Emacs in the > future? > > in GTK+2 it is really just a 2-liner in the source to add the support. > but of course that won't do context stuff (like not checking maths > equations in LaTeX mode) but i'm sure it could be worked around. > > at the moment i have to maintain 2 dictionaries on OS X as Emacs is not > making use of the system one, its quite irritating... also, these > methods are *much* faster than flyspell. IMHO, it's the context sensitive spell checker that makes emacs/ispell so useful. My guess is that most emacs users are writing text with markup (code, tex, html, ...) and the ability to check the text while ignoring the markup is critical. I used to wonder why people's C code had so many spelling errors, until I realized that only emacs can spell check the comments and strings and ignore the code. And my periodic question: When I spell check comments and strings and the string is part of a printf printf("\tHello, world\n"); I'd like the spell checker to ignore the letter after the \. Currently, it complains that tHello is misspelled, causing many false errors. -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646