Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: spell checker for freemacs? Message-ID: Date: 25 Nov 88 04:01:07 GMT References: <4794@leadsv.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: webb@leadsv.UUCP's message of 21 Nov 88 20:54:53 GMT In article <4794@leadsv.UUCP> webb@leadsv.UUCP (J.J. Webb) writes: novice question ... where can i find a dict. and spell checker for freemacs? EMACSPEL.ARC, which is available from all the usual places. novice question 2 ... is there a thesaurus? No, but it'd be neat to have... novice question 3 ... if they do exist, how does one go about installing them? SPELLER (contained in EMACSPEL) is a general purpose spelling checker engine that goes TSR when you run it. It responds to requests made to interrupt 0x82. Freemacs has a primitive #(sc,...) that generates requests and returns the value. So you can implement ispell for Freemacs, and I'm waiting for someone (else) to do so... :-) Right now, spell-word is the only spelling checker implemented. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) To surrender is to remain in the hands of barbarians for the rest of my life. To fight is to leave my bones exposed in the desert waste.