From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Spell checking with acme in p9p
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:45:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131215034508.74EF3B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:46:40 CST." <CABwHSOtmyUEYeU1aKt=nCBCZS9kgtQQ2Q=h_WvnVLd2sDcJ8cw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:46:40 CST Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:
>
> So, I guess the point of this is that there are a lot of steps necessary to
> correct a text's spelling. It would be easier just to do:
>
> aspell check file.txt
>
> But that would be side-stepping acme. I am just wondering how others
> handle this situation.
Don't think acme is particularly suited for spell correction.
If I am unsure of a spelling I just use "look <prefix>" which
spits out words with that prefix -- this is usually good
enough. For scripts with complex layout (which are not
displayed properly by most all CLI programs), I use TextEdit
or a word processor.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-15 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-15 2:46 Blake McBride
2013-12-15 3:45 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2013-12-15 12:01 ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-15 15:08 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 16:03 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 16:27 ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-15 11:55 trebol
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