From: Scott W. <cs...@in...> - 2002-07-29 18:47:05
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Jimmy, I did the original work on the SpellChecker plugin (and thank Lionel for his making it better). Aspell was chossen as the only Java spell check I found was commercial. Later on, we figured out it was a great one (been around a 100 years good). As Lionel pointed out, the SpellChecker API astracts the checker, so if you find a GPL SpellChecker it would be 30 minutes work to make it available for JEdit. I also like Lionel's idea of using Google's API (as least for the fun!). csw > -----Original Message----- > From: jed...@li... > [mailto:jed...@li...]On Behalf Of lio-sand > Sent: 29 July 2002 10:26 > To: jEdit Development Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Plug-In Ideas > > > Hi Jimmy, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wilson Jimmy - jiwils" <Jim...@ac...> > To: "jEdit Development Mailing List (E-mail)" > <jed...@li...> > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:07 AM > Subject: [ jEdit-devel ] Plug-In Ideas > > > > I have the following ideas for plugins, but I want to bounce > them of this > > list before I try to build anything... > (...) > > (3) A spell checker plugin. Again, I know that one exists, but > it depends > > on 3rd party software (non-Java) that depends on 3rd party software > > (non-Java). This kind of stops out of the box platform > independence. Has > > any exploration been done with using Java spell checker > libraries (I think > > there are some out there)? If so, was it speed, convenience, > or something > > else that caused the reliance on the non-Java spell checker stuff? > > About SpellChecker plugin, despite I'm not the plugin author, I > contributed > a new release (R004) which should be available on Plugin Central soon. I > know aspell is non-Java but at least it is very powerfull and > works well for > Unix (it is often installed by default with Linux distros) and > Windows. You > can even find binaries for MacOS and BeOS despite I haven't > tested Aspell on > these systems. Another advantage of Aspell is that it comes with a huge > number of non english dictionaries and has an wide spread user > base. I don't > know if there is some Java spell cheker libraries but I doubt > they could be > as good as Aspell one. Nevertheless if such libraries exist it could be > interresting to seek into, but rather making another plugin for spell > checking why not try to include a full Java spell checker engine along the > Aspell one into the existing SpellCheck plugin and let the user decides > which one he want to use? There is also a spell check macro using > the Google > API that could be merged into the SpellCheck plugin in order to have an > unified spell checker dialog. Fell free to contribute and send any > suggestions or even better patchs ;-). > > But don't misunderstand me. You are welcome to contribute but I > think making > redundant plugins is not a good idea as it is time wasting. > > Lionel Fiol. > > > __________________________________________________________________ > ____________ > ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! > vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... > http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > jEdit Developers' List > jEd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jedit-devel |