You are welcome to try it out and improve it! It is pretty bare bones.

Robby

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:33 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]> 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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