Subject: Spell checker not working

From: "Dirk Herr-Hoyman" <[email-masked]>
Date: 8 May 1997 20:02:32 GMT

We having a problem with the spell check not working in Pine 3.96.

I can run pico in standalone mode an turn on an alternative spell check,
ispell, via the environment variable SPELL.  Setting SPELL does not turn
this on within Pine.

I tried to change the Pine configuration variable spell to use ispell, but
that just hung up, ispell was not invoked and I was stuck.

This pine was built as a part of Debian Linux.  Other than this issue, all
seems to be fine and we have a number of users beating on it all the time.

Any tips would be appreciated.
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Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[email-masked]>
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From: SandraB <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 09:35:45 -0400

Did you try putting in the full path to ispell in your pine configuration?

For example: From the Main menu, do S (setup) C (Config).

At the setting "Speller" you may need to put in something like:

	speller = /usr/local/bin/ispell

Your full path may vary!

Hope that helps.

Sandra

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From: "Kenneth P. Turvey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 16:55:49 -0500

Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[email-masked]> wrote:
: We having a problem with the spell check not working in Pine 3.96.

: I can run pico in stand alone mode an turn on an alternative spell check,
: ispell, via the environment variable SPELL.  Setting SPELL does not turn
: this on within Pine.

: I tried to change the Pine configuration variable spell to use ispell, but
: that just hung up, ispell was not invoked and I was stuck.

: This pine was built as a part of Debian Linux.  Other than this issue, all
: seems to be fine and we have a number of users beating on it all the time.

: Any tips would be appreciated.

I don't remember if this is in the FAQ or where, but Ispell doesn't
work well with pine.  (Has this been fixed yet?  Is it going to be?)

In order to use Ispell you need to set it up as an alternate editor.
Then you would invoke it with ^_.

Good luck.

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