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Date:      Tue, 26 May 2009 19:19:19 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Better version of ispell?
Message-ID:  <20090526171919.GC75202@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <26face530905260939r41ba8848yd1a142441b52af3f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <26face530905260939r41ba8848yd1a142441b52af3f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:39:25AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
> Is there a version/improvment of ispell that:
>=20
>  % 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.
>=20
>  % Lets you declare correctly-spelled words as being incorrect?
>=20
>   % Example: I often misspell the word "cron" as "corn"; ispell
>   obviously doesn't catch this. I rarely use the word "corn".=20

I've made a file of sed(1) commands to correct common typos, e.g:

s/THe/The/g
s/corn/cron/g

After I've typed something, I use sed to correct these frequent mistakes:

sed -i .bak -f mybad.txt file.txt

This will leave the original text in file.txt.bak. Using diff(1) to
compare the altered file and the backup, I can check if things have been
replaced that shouldn't have been, an fix them.

If you are using emacs, you can use flyspell-mode[1] to do spell-checking
with ispell while you are typing.


Roland

[1: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html]
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