Leif, Wow, I'm not sure how I missed that it already has the feature :/.
Thanks!
On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 2:12:44 PM UTC-7, Leif Andersen wrote:
>
> Fun fact, DrRacket already has a spell checker. It's not the best thing
> ever, and it also requires you to have a/ispell (or whatever it is)
> installed, but it gets the job done for some use cases.
>
> You can get it by going to:
>
> Edit -> Spell check string constants
> Edit -> Spell check text (between {} in scribble)
>
> You can tell it's working because if you have a word misspelled in a
> drracket string, it will be black instead of green.
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
>
>
> ~Leif Andersen
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 4:08 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Racketeers,
>>
>> I'm planning to implement a spell checker in DrRacket. I have two main
>> concerns I'd like to raise with you all before I get in too deep:
>>
>> - Is there anyone else currently working on this?
>> - I need help understanding what legal and licensing issues there are
>> by using the ispell <https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html> (
>> https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html ) source code as a
>> reference. I use the word "port" in parenthetically below because I'm
>> using details learned from the C source to implement the Racket code.
>> Maybe its a matter of asking the maintainer of ispell what to do? I don't
>> know.
>>
>>
>> The idea came from the wiki,
>>
>> > Write a parser for ispell dictionaries. Make DrRacket use it.
>> (from https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Intro-Projects)
>>
>> I've made enough progress writing the ispell dictionary parser that I
>> feel confident this is a project I can complete with a little help from the
>> community.
>>
>> Here is a 50,000 foot outline of the work I have planned:
>>
>> 1. Finish writing (porting) the ispell dictionary hash parser
>> 2. Write (port) the spelling corrector engine
>> 3. Solicit feedback from the Racket community regarding DrRacket
>> feature details like the following,
>> 1. How should a misspelled word look in DrRacket?
>> 2. How does the user want to control the spell checker?
>> 3. Should it check word in function names, or just inside strings
>> or scribble text blocks?
>> 4. etc.
>> 4. Implement the DrRacket integration using feedback from (3).
>> 5. Put up a PR!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
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