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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Vim 7 includes a native spellchecker. It uses its own spell file |
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> format which can be created using Myspell *.aff/*.dic files (the same |
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> as for Mozilla and OpenOffice). The spell files are rather large, so |
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> it's not feasible to bundle them with vim unconditionally. |
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are them interchangeable? |
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> Building a spell file from source is tricky and requires huge amounts |
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> of RAM and some fairly obscure dependencies. Upstream ship pre-built |
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> spell files, and I believe it would make most sense for us to use |
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> those. |
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I second that. |
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> Note that spell files have to be generated for each internal character |
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> set that may be used. This generally means utf-8 (used by gtk2/qt gvim |
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> internally no matter what) and the appropriate iso-8859- code for the |
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> country in question. |
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That should cover most uses. |
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> Questions: |
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> * app-vim or app-dicts for the spell files? |
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app-dicts if they can be non vim only... |
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> * Will there be sufficient interest from other developers to make this |
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> worthwhile? |
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if is vim only I'm not sure. |
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> * Is anyone going to get upset about the character set decisions? |
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As usual I'm afraid... |
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> * Does anyone think we should make users build spell lists from source, |
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> even though it can require several GBytes of RAM? |
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Only if requested by user (think about an useflag) |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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