From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 26 16:39:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B68B106564A for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 16:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f105.google.com (mail-qy0-f105.google.com [209.85.221.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B1B8FC21 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 16:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so5631581qyk.3 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Pq1Q1A4Ft+AUV9XXibs5iVRAux6FAYc5jc/K7og49U=; b=f5PnTahymZgVw6hjMQLrn8h3wGbcEd4nVKnVOB/SQexDW7BlI0RyYPsgCgAPpx5tHI 44KK9iZhLvor0t1CdzWarbGm8XQ1e8P/2oV5PRAcP2uLFf0aBi67PDjskLKJT7YqK+j7 qQLPg0hJUX51CpEdc1CHCM7/PjCgLw//wXWHM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=XVDs2O9ameNl5c8sauedU3CUryJKPUOc+B5NHFxq5pp2QkhwrLyPoYYWY1kF3FkMzl hONr2349igqIRcfW863vruavJAlssO/Yz9Ppkr0MyFWRmAD5b8XTKO41sRIiPEouIqHa gEsH/WsCDxrN11DS79bsnQMAdkvKxYktMk9N8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.80.1 with SMTP id r1mr2308698qck.93.1243355965440; Tue, 26 May 2009 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:39:25 -0700 Message-ID: <26face530905260939r41ba8848yd1a142441b52af3f@mail.gmail.com> From: Kelly Jones To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Better version of ispell? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 16:39:27 -0000 Is there a version/improvment of ispell that: % Lets you exclude certain sections of a file from spellchecking? Example: I often email sendmail logs with their random-character queue ids. I don't want ispell to check those cut/pasted logs. % Lets you declare correctly-spelled words as being incorrect? % Example: I often misspell the word "cron" as "corn"; ispell obviously doesn't catch this. I rarely use the word "corn". I want to remove "corn" from the dictionary w/o actually tweaking /usr/dict/words or whatever ispell uses. I know you can *add* words (using %$HOME/.ispell_english for example), but what spellchecker lets you *remove* them as well? I know about aspell, but think it suffers from the same limitations (in fact, ti may be the same program?) I posted a similar query to aspell-user@gnu.org earlier, but got no reply, so I thought I'd try this list instead. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. [for absolute pedants: yes, I misspelled improvement incorrectly up there!]