Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Plug-In Ideas

[lio-sand <lio...@if...>]

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