Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: tags-ispell Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 23:39:31 GMT References: <19849@oolong.la.locus.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Lines: 44 In-Reply-To: geoff@ITcorp.com's message of 22 Nov 90 02:11:49 GMT > ispell -l understands \input and \include LaTeX directives, > but GNU EMACS' ispell mode does not, so a lot of misspelled words > cannot be found in the root of the document. > > As a quick workaround I wrote the following... Emacs [users] seem to suffer from a syndrome which causes them to try to do everything from inside emacs, even when that is highly inappropriate. As an alternative, I suggest: ^Z % ispell root.tex % fg Well, let's see, I just tried the suggestion. First, I had to open a regular xterm window. Normally I do not have shell windows. Then, ispell choked because my root file was read-only. My GNU EMACS environment automatically asks me if I want to RCS check out a file when I attempt to modify it and it is non-writable. With plain ispell I had to remember how to check out (well, okay, I remembered it) and I had to type in the command. Then, ispell gave me maybe two lines of context before querying for every change. GNU EMACS' ispell gives me a wondow full of context. Then, I had to open another window with the ispell man page in it to figure out what the commands were. GNU EMACS' help functions give me that for free. Yes - running ispell plain would have been fine if I were already an experienced ispell user. I am not - this was the first time I used ispell. GNU EMACS let me run ispell with an interface I was already familiar with, with more information than is normally available from ispell. GNU EMACS is the beginnings of an integrated software development environment, with editor and tools. -- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]