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 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/edffbcdf-d311-4bc2-b24f-62e6e9dba435%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/edffbcdf-d311-4bc2-b24f-62e6e9dba435%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/17049854-49f7-4e30-8179-bfee318e5423%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/17049854-49f7-4e30-8179-bfee318e5423%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAL3TdOP3udju4V%2BW06JwD80A9iiD%2BjZEE4HDY_SabLg%2BsWTCuQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
