Long live Aspell

Long live Aspell

[Richard Stallman]

Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:47:51 -0600 (MDT)
From: Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org>
To: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
cc: rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hunspell/aspell?
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Karl Berry wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> There was some talk on the Emacs list about using Hunspell; I'll append
> the most useful bit below, a message between rms and Eli.  Do you think
> there is any chance of adding such features to aspell?

See the To Do section on Aspell home page (http://aspell.net).  So Yes I 
hope to add Hunspell features to Aspell.  The first item on the list 
"Twofold suffix stripping" is mostly implemented.  I hope to have the 
other item "Better support for compound words ..." implemented by Aspell 
0.61.

Hunspell is most directly related to MySpell as it is based on it's code 
base.  Aspell is still the best spell checker to use for English since it 
does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled 
words.  For some other languages Hunspell is better like Hungarian and 
Turkish, for others both Aspell and Hunspell work equally well.

Also Aspell functions much better as an independent application than 
Hunspell does.

Re: Long live Aspell

[David Kastrup]

In the last week I have several times had problems unmounting an
external drive.  More than once it turned out that an accidental M-$ or
so had started an aspell process with current working directory on the
drive.

This aspell process turned out to be more long-lived than desirable.
Administering a kill to it made it possible to disconnect the drive.

Just to douse the subject line somewhat.

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: Long live Aspell

[Jason Rumney]

David Kastrup wrote:
> This aspell process turned out to be more long-lived than desirable.
> Administering a kill to it made it possible to disconnect the drive.
>   

That would seem to be a problem with ispell.el independant of which 
program ispell-program is set to.

Re: Long live Aspell

[David Kastrup]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> This aspell process turned out to be more long-lived than desirable.
>> Administering a kill to it made it possible to disconnect the drive.
>>   
>
> That would seem to be a problem with ispell.el independant of which
> program ispell-program is set to.

But had I been using a different ispell-program, my comment would not
have qualified as a humorous twist on the thread subject.

But apparently it did not make it through qualification anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum