Re: editors and spell checking?

Hi,
yes that helps allot.
As I prefer pico to nano for example  in  the lynx config for  my user 
setup here that line has  pico -s name of speller, ispell I believe.
So, if they pre nano  or simple speller or whatever, they can do the same, 
either specifying the command line for the speller, assuming it works 
like pico, or  making sure the editor has a speller package.
Their configuration for alpine includes  the default for aspell on the speller 
line, but no editor.
I have not checked alpine at shellworld, I  prefer using pine personally 
here.
Thanks,
Karen



On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Tim Chase wrote:

> Replying inline
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> On 2024-04-02 15:33, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> I am helping someone resolve an issue, they have access to lynx, but the
>> editor field is blank.
>> They are using Ubuntu.
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> If they're already comfortable with a preferred editor, you can
> tell Lynx to use that on the command-line with the "-editor" option:
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>  $ lynx -editor=/usr/bin/nano http://example.com
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> They might even have configured their system to use "sensible-editor"
> in which case
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>  $ lynx -editor=/usr/bin/sensible-editor http://example.com
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> should invoke their preferred editor.
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> Alternatively, you can use "o" to go to the lynx options, check the
> "Save options to disk" checkbox, set the Editor value in there, and
> save the options.
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> Strangely, lynx doesn't honor the common method of setting either
> the $EDITOR or $VISUAL environment variable.
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>> In alpine for example there is a field for editor, and one for spell
>> checking, I admit to thinking they worked together as in are software
>> dependent.
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> They can be the same thing or they can be different tools.  Some
> editors have spell-check support, some don't; so you might want an
> external spell-checker.
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>> Does lynx work the same?  meaning does there need to be one field
>> for the editor and one for spell checker?
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> I don't think lynx has anything spell-checking-related, just
> editor-related.  However, if they use an editor with built-in
> spell-checking, that would do the trick.
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>> or is it enough to make sure the chosen editor is configured
>> to use the desired spell checker.  meaning adding the editor will
>> allow for spell checking as well?
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> I believe this is the case.  I know that vim and emacs both have
> support for spell-checking.  And nano does too if you enable it and
> add a spell-checking package:
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>  $ sudo apt-get install spell
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> With the spell-checker installed, you should be able to use control+t
> in nano to spell-check the file.
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> Hopefully that helps,
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> -tim
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