Re: Aspell as default spellchecker.

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:05:21 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

There is no reason to discuss this.  Nano will keep using hunspell
as its default spell checker.

The default spell checker works in a different manner than one that
is defined via the 'set speller' or --speller options.  The default
checker sends the file to `hunspell` or `spell`, and receives back a
list of misspelled words, and then offers these words, each in turn,
to the user for correction.  A speller defined with 'set speller' or
--speller, sends the file to the tool, and expects to receives back
a corrected file (the spelling corrections happen in the tool, not
in nano).

So, the two methods are radically different.  Making the second method
the default with a fallback to the first method, would require some
serious rewriting.  I'm not going to do that.  And won't accept any
patches either.  Things work fine as they are.  To make nano more
useful, users have to set several options anyway, like 'set atblanks',
'set historylog', 'set indicator', and 'set scrollercolor brick,#444'.
It's not a problem for them to add 'set speller aspell -x -c ...'.


Benno

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