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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vim spell files
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:29:59
Message-Id: 20050923172533.366da063@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] vim spell files by Luca Barbato
1 On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:12:27 +0200 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > Vim 7 includes a native spellchecker. It uses its own spell file
5 | > format which can be created using Myspell *.aff/*.dic files (the
6 | > same as for Mozilla and OpenOffice). The spell files are rather
7 | > large, so it's not feasible to bundle them with vim unconditionally.
8 |
9 | are them interchangeable?
10
11 Nope. The format's vim-specific. Vim upstream consider other formats to
12 be too inefficient for on the fly spellchecking in an editor where you
13 can make extremely quick changes to a lot of text.
14
15 | > * Does anyone think we should make users build spell lists from
16 | > source, even though it can require several GBytes of RAM?
17 |
18 | Only if requested by user (think about an useflag)
19
20 USE flags control things that affect the generated content. Building
21 spell files from source every time always produces the same output.
22
23 --
24 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
25 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
26 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] vim spell files Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@×××××.com>