Sometimes (for long pieces of text like blog posts) I use wwb to check style and readability. Correcting something usually is
1. Right-click the line number in +errors 2. Correct 3. Go back to 1 For spell checking, tweaking aspell's output is best. Also, keep in mind that all the steps can be (after tweaking) 1. Double click the correct word in +Errors 2. 2-3 chord to copy it (so you don't even leave the line or mouse) 2. 3 click the line number (I think there is a way to use :lineno with an additional regex, that would be handy here to directly land on the word) 3. Double click the wrong word 4. Without leaving 1 pressed, 3 to paste (pressing command if on trackpad) It's pretty fast, actually. Beware of adding column pos to aspell output, since after editing the buffer these will change. By the way, do you know about 1-2 chords, don't you? For some of these tasks it may be useful. Ruben PS: Sent it a while ago, always forgetting I don't have this email account configured on my iPad :/ On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get spell checking working with acme on a Mac using p9p. I > am using the following script: > > # > aspell pipe |grep '^&' > > When run on a text selection (with >), it returns me with a list of > incorrectly spelled words along with a list of potential corrections. Each > line represents the misspelled word and its suggested corrections. Cool, > I've got what I need. > > I can modify what it returns through awk to give me the line and > character of the word, and reformat the line to be more meaningful to acmeif > it would be helpful. > > The problem is that there are a lot of steps to make a correction. I > think I need to: > > 1. snarf the misspelled word from the Errors buffer > > 2. Paste the word into the tag line of the file being checked > > 3. Right-click on the word in the tag line to find it in the input file > > 4. Select the correct spelling from one of the aspell suggestions in the > Errors window and snarf it. > > 5. Select the incorrectly spelled word in the input file and paste the > corrected word in its place. > > As I said earlier, I may be able to simplify a step or so by reformatting > the result of the spell check with awk, but I'm not sure what would be > helpful yet. > > So, I guess the point of this is that there are a lot of steps necessary > to correct a text's spelling. It would be easier just to do: > > aspell check file.txt > > But that would be side-stepping acme. I am just wondering how others > handle this situation. > > Thank you! > > Blake McBride > >
