From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chiron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: improve your spell checking in emacs Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:56 GMT Organization: TeraNews.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334659520 14581 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2012 10:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:45:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 17 12:45:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SK5uM-0008GJ-7T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SK5uL-0006fD-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:45:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe18.iad.POSTED!7ed62f90!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:56 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1510 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192072 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84488 Archived-At: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:17:37 -0500, Tami wrote: > 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