From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: lm@mcvoy.com, khm@sciops.net
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Revived! The 10 Edition spell program!
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:15:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201909250615.x8P6FoWX006682@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190924203052.GB74746@wopr>
Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:58:35PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > How is this better than spell(1) on Linux?
>
> Assuming you're talking about GNU spell, it suffers from feature creep
> (localization stuff, hard-coded markup filters, etc) which makes the
> code less pleasant to work with. I'm not sure why my spellchecker needs
> curses support, but GNU spell has it. Also I don't like having to worry
> about licensing cruft when I e.g. copy a binary over to a system at
> work. If I can do my work with 5% the source code, that's generally my
> plan.
>
>
> khm
It's not clear what 'spell' is --- it differs from distro to distro,
often based on aspell. Whatever is on Ubuntu doesn't even know
how to use 'sort -u' on its output.
For myself, I don't claim that v10spell is better or worse than anything
else out there; it simply provides another option, especially for fans
of the original Unix code. :-)
Arnold
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-25 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-24 17:10 arnold
2019-09-24 17:15 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-24 17:30 ` arnold
2019-09-24 19:42 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-09-24 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-24 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-09-25 6:15 ` arnold [this message]
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