On Saturday 02 Feb 2002 00:15, Neuromancer wrote:
> Thus spake Neuromancer about Life, the Universe, and Everything:
> | Thus spake Neuromancer about Life, the Universe, and Everything:
> | | Thus spake Thierry Vignaud about Life, the Universe, and Everything:
> | | | Neuromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a skrivas:
> | | | > | If you use ispell I would like to hear from you about this.
> | | | > |
> | | | > | If there is no objections, I would start the switch.
> | | | >
> | | | > I use ispell.
> | | | >
> | | | > I've never tried aspell. Is it significantly better that
> | | | > ispell?
> | | |
> | | | it has a far superior algorithm for word suggestion whereas
> | | | ispell only presents words that diff from the bad written one by
> | | | at most 2 letters. instead of this limited "algorithm", aspell
> | | | try to found suggestions according to phoning rules of the
> | | | language.
> | |
> | | Sounds good. I'm all for the change then.
> | |
> | | Guess I'm off to rewrite my vim macros to use aspell... ;)
> |
> | Almost done. Got a quick question if you don't mind.
> |
> | How do I get aspell to use word lists in /usr/share/dict/words
> | format?
>
> Ok. I'm not sure if this is a big deal for anyone else but me, but
> aspell apparently does not support reading from non-compressed
> dictionary lists.
>
> My vim macros have the very useful feature (at least to me) of being
> able to add words to a custom dictionary (~/.dictionary). It appends
> these words one after the other like /usr/share/dict/words does.
> Ispell can source and use this file with the -p option. Aspell, on the
> other hand, gives an error about .dictionary being in an incorrect
> format.
>
> -Russ
Your ispell person dictionary is probably $HOME/.ispell_english. The
aspell one is $HOME/.aspell.english.pws.
Copy the first line of .aspell.english.pws ("personal_ws-1.1 english 34"
in mine) to the top of .ispell_english and you'll find it will work.
Then you can copy it over to the aspell name.
It's a funny error message - they're both plain text.
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