Re: Which spell checkers to include by default? (Was: priorities)
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:08:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: If we were to keep a spell checker as part of the default installation, I would suggest using hunspell as it is most advanced and I am told it support the most languages at the moment. The next step would be to change all programs currently using ispell, aspell and myspell by default to use hunspell instead. The only package I use that are still using ispell is emacs. A side note here, emacs+ispell.el can also use aspell -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which spell checkers to include by default? (Was: priorities)
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:08:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Anthony Towns] Kind of reviving an old thread, but anyway: It also includes, but afaics, probably doesn't need to (anymore): ispell, dictionaries-common, iamerican, ibritish, wamerican [Agustin Martin] #416572: ibritish: Should not have priority standard We now have aspell, myspell and hunspell as alternatives to ispell, and it can be argued that all of them are better than ispell at providing spell checking and recommendations for replacements. Because of this, I believe it would be a good idea to drop ispell from the list of standard packages, and the related packages too (i*, w*). What I meant in the rest of my mail was that ispell should already be out of the standard packages (as well as iamerican, ibritish and wbritish), and the same for any other spellchecker like aspell or hunspell. Only wamerican was intended to be part of standard. dictionaries-common is also part of standard because wamerican needs it for wordlists integration into Debian. This is something I would like to improve, but I am still unclear about how. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which spell checkers to include by default? (Was: priorities)
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 08:08:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Because of this, I believe it would be a good idea to drop ispell from the list of standard packages, and the related packages too (i*, w*). Note that the w* packages provide word lists, which are important to many programs. One could argue that a standard Unix system should have a word list; at least, every Unix system I have used provides one. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only a typesetting engine: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
