Re: spell check on the command line

[Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com>]

Thanks Bart.

All works first time.
(Perhaps one day I will actually become literate and learn to spell, perhaps not?)

ciao

Eric Smith

Bart Schaefer wrote on Sat-25-Oct 14  8:06PM
> On Oct 25, 10:17am, Eric Smith wrote:
> }
> } I cannot find the application "suggest" anywhere, what do you
> } suggest?
> 
> No pun intended?
> 
> If you have ispell or aspell you can run them with the -a option and
> parse the output.  I'm sure there's a way to do the same with hunspell
> but I'm not familiar with the details.
> 
> It'd be something like
> 
>   suggest() {
>     local tag misspelt count offset suggestions
>     aspell -a |
>     while read tag misspelt count offset suggestions
>     do 
>       [[ $tag = \& ]] && print -R $misspelt ${${(s:, :)suggestions}[1]}
>     done
>   }
> 
> Beware that aspell might suggest that a word be split into two words,
> rather than corrected to a different single word, so you probably want
> to adjust the above to filter ${(s:, :)suggestions} before deciding
> which one to print.
> 
> -- 
> Barton E. Schaefer

-- 
Eric Smith