Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-16 Thread David T-G
David -- ...and then David Champion said... % % On 2002.01.13, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, % "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % > % > I don't necessarily agree that mutt should spit out a message, though I % > can see that this could be confusing. What I would do would be to go % > ...

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-16 Thread David Champion
On 2002.01.13, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't necessarily agree that mutt should spit out a message, though I > can see that this could be confusing. What I would do would be to go > ... > % Feedback is an important element of any user interfac

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-14 Thread David T-G
Sam -- ...and then Samuel Padgett said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % % > I think the actual flea is that ispell does not follow % > $wait_key, myself. % % I'll buy that. Sold! % % > Who wants to start a movement to get that changed, or submit a % > feature patch? % % I co

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-14 Thread Samuel Padgett
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the actual flea is that ispell does not follow > $wait_key, myself. I'll buy that. > Who wants to start a movement to get that changed, or submit a > feature patch? I could do the former or the latter, although the latter would require permission

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-13 Thread David T-G
Sam, et al -- ...and then Samuel Padgett said... % ... % return code with "echo $?". When running Ispell from Mutt, % however, you don't have this. You press 'i'. Nothing happens. % You press 'i' again. Nothing happens. "Why isn't Ispell % running?" you think. "What did I break? Were ther

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-12 Thread Derek D. Martin
At some point hitherto, Samuel Padgett hath spake thusly: > Derek D. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is part of the Unix philosophy, which goes something like, "if > > there's nothing to report, then report nothing." Armed with this > > knowledge, there's really no need for such a

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-12 Thread Samuel Padgett
Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I get it. Errors and output disappear so fast that you can't > really see them, which I hadn't noticed before. Doing what I suggested > above would at least let you see that *something* ran, though. Hmm, not > as worthwhile as I thought, sor

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> then, > >> vi .muttrc > >ispell=muttspell.sh > > It seems like this would probably do what you want, right? Ok, I get it. Errors and output disappear so fast that you can't really see them, which I hadn't noticed before. Doing what I suggested above would at least let you see th

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-12 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Feedback is an important element of any user interface, GUI or > text-based, UNIX or not. Ok... so I'd have to agree... but why can't you just wrap aspell in a script of your own, i.e. > vi muttspell.sh #!/bin/sh aspell $* echo "Aspell completed with return ($?)" then, > vi .

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-12 Thread Samuel Padgett
Derek D. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is part of the Unix philosophy, which goes something like, "if > there's nothing to report, then report nothing." Armed with this > knowledge, there's really no need for such a message... I would amend that to say, "If there's no need to report

Re: Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-12 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Samuel Padgett hath spake thusly: > I sometimes spell check my messages before I send them using > Ispell (actually, Aspell), and often I have no errors. When this > is the case, however, Mutt does not indicate that the spell

Ispell is too quiet when run from the Compose menu

2002-01-11 Thread Samuel Padgett
I sometimes spell check my messages before I send them using Ispell (actually, Aspell), and often I have no errors. When this is the case, however, Mutt does not indicate that the spell checker ran at all! Is there any way I can tell Mutt to display a message, for instance, "Ispell exited with r