Subject: Use of alternate speller

From: "Andy C. McNiece" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 16:07:33 -0700 (PDT)

I am attempting to use ispell as an alternate speller.  Could someone 
provide me with the syntax to use.  Simply defining ispell as the speller 
in osdep.h is not working correctly.  Upon invoking the spell checker 
from within pico, the screen fills with the ispell help message.

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From: Mike Kuniavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 13:07:12 -0400 (EDT)

> from within pico, the screen fills with the ispell help message.

Although I wish there was a cleaner way to do this (feature suggestion?!
;-) I've found the defining ispell as the alternate editor in either
individual .pinercs or in the global pine.conf works quite nicely. 

It would be nice if an alternate speller could be defined, so one could 
have both it and an alternate editor, but the current system works fine 
for most people.

Mike Kuniavsky           ITD/US UNIX Support
[email-masked]          (313)764-1178

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From: "Jason R. Thorpe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 10:39:40 -0700 (PDT)

> from within pico, the screen fills with the ispell help message.

I believe when trn (Threaded Read News) invokes ispell, it uses:
ispell -x

But I'm not sure...Does this help?

Later...

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From: Ian Lumb <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 14:35:03 -0400

> have both it and an alternate editor, but the current system works fine 

I would also like to see an alternate speller added as a feature, as I 
quite often use an alternate editor which I do want to give up for a 
spell checker.

Ian.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 13:38:49 -0700 (PDT)

You can define an alternate spelling checker by setting the SPELL 
environment variable.  Note that whatever you define here must take the 
text input on stdin and write out a list of misspelled words on stdout.

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