From: Martin V. <mar...@ao...> - 2013-12-08 18:43:44
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hello, could somebody please advise how to use spell checking in joe ? I keep reading that joe supports spell checking through ispell, but nowhere could I find instructions how to use it I would very much appreciate any advise I am using joe 3.7-2.3 in Debian |
From: Robin S. <ro...@sm...> - 2013-12-17 09:52:17
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On 08.12.2013 19:43, Martin Vegter wrote: > could somebody please advise how to use spell checking in joe ? I keep > reading that joe supports spell checking through ispell, but nowhere > could I find instructions how to use it > > I am using joe 3.7-2.3 in Debian In my /etc/joe/joerc (Ubuntu 10.04) there are some definitions around line 770 for spell checking. Pressing ESC l or ESC n is supposed to run aspell on either the entire file or the current word. Changing the shortcut to ispellfile/ispellword should allow you to run ispell instead of aspell. -- Robin |
From: Martin V. <mar...@ao...> - 2013-12-17 11:13:48
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> On 2013-12-17 10:35, Robin Smidsrød wrote: > On 08.12.2013 19:43, Martin Vegter wrote: >> could somebody please advise how to use spell checking in joe ? I keep >> reading that joe supports spell checking through ispell, but nowhere >> could I find instructions how to use it >> >> I am using joe 3.7-2.3 in Debian > > In my /etc/joe/joerc (Ubuntu 10.04) there are some definitions around > line 770 for spell checking. Pressing ESC l or ESC n is supposed to run > aspell on either the entire file or the current word. Changing the > shortcut to ispellfile/ispellword should allow you to run ispell instead > of aspell. > > -- Robin It works, indeed. Thanks very much. However, I was (perhaps naively) expecting something little bit different. I was hoping for spell check functionality, which underlines (or highlights) misspelled words (as in Thunderbird, for example) The functionality that joe has, seems to me quite user unfriendly: it offers to spell-check words one by one (i.e. serially). Why not display the misspelled words all at once (i.e. in parallel) ? Martin |