Re: use of TAGS file for spellchecking in C mode

Hi Gary,

Gary Setter wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Setter" <[email protected]>
> To: "Stefan Kost" <[email protected]>;
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [aspell-devel] use of TAGS file for spellchecking in
> C mode
> 
> 
> 
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Stefan Kost" <[email protected]>
>>To: <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:11 AM
>>Subject: [aspell-devel] use of TAGS file for spellchecking in C
>>mode
>>
>>
>>
>>>hi hi,
>>>
>> at first thanks for the c comment spell-checking mode. Its a
>> good start to get
>> better source documentation. On annoying thing is that aspell
>> does not know
>> about symbol names and thus brings up a lot of false warnings
>> when referencing
>> symbol names in doc-comments. One idea would be to use a local TAGS file
>> as an additional wordlist.
>> Unfortunately I neither found how to use a local wordlist,
>> nor how such a
>> wordlist should look like. Can someone please point me to the
>> right place. Then
>> 
>> I can write a simple perl-tool to convert the TAGS file into
>> the appropriate
>> format for aspell. >>>
>>Ciao
>>   Stefan
>>
>>Hi Stefan,
>>
>>The personal file is an ordinary text file. You can look at it,
>>and create your own.
>>What you're suggesting doesn't need to be a personal file. The
>>personal file is suppose to be a writeable file which is
> 
> managed
> 
>>as part of correcting a document.
>>You could define your dictionary as a .multi file which lists
>>some .rws files (compiled word lists). One of the .rws files
>>would
>>be the your compiled current tags file. See how the aspell
>>utility program supports the create master file to see how to
>>compile a word list.
>>
>>Hope that helps!
>>Gary
>>
> 
> For the record, I thought some more about my suggestion, and
> believe there is a better one.
> You don't need to compile your list of program symbols. Just save
> the list to as a normal text file. You could use any extension
> that does not conflict with the standard extensions. See
> add_data_set function for the list of standard extensions. Just
> put the line "personal_ws" at the beginning and it will be
> interpreted as a Writable dictionary just like your personal
> dictionary. You do need to keep your file in the same directory
> as your master dictionary.
> Gary
> 
Many thanks! This certainly helps. Now the only thing I need is to persuade 
aspell not to use '_' as an word delimiter. Any idea?

Stefan