Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mayoff From: mayoff@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Mayoff) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Re: spelling from within vi Message-ID: <987@langtry.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 05:42:26 GMT References: <1990Nov7.005405.461@investor.pgh.pa.us> <2230002@hpuplca.HP.COM> <765@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin Lines: 12 ispell is a program that does interactive spell-checking; when it finds a word not in its dictionary, it puts it on the screen, with some context, and gives a list of possible replacement words. It lets you take several actions, such as replacing the word with a suggested word, or adding the word to a private dictionary. It has a better dictionary than the standard spell, because its dictionary have conjugation information. Hence, while standard spell accepts 'verbing' as a word (I just checked), ispell won't, because it knows that that is not a valid conjugation. -- /_ rob /_ Fun things to do with UNIX (#12 in a series): / cd /dev; cat mouse # Try this on a Sun. Really!