Re: Hallelujah! Hspell 1.0 is released.

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=EC =E9=E3=E9 Nadav Har'El:
> ...
>
> From your description, it appears that this "alternatives" mechanism (w=
hich
> like Dan, I wasn't even aware of), is perhaps well-suited for system
> software (e.g., choosing between Sendmail and Postfix, or between MySQL=
 and
> Postgresql) but I don't see how it is relevant for user-level software,
> like which spell-checker to use. If changing the spell-checker to use
> requires modifying links, how can multiple users use this system
> concurrently?
It's incredible how much the Debian hacks have got into other distributio=
ns.=20
Even more incredible, that most of us don't even know they exist (it's on=
ly=20
my 2nd time I am using this system).

> The "alternatives" system you mention could become useful (in my opinio=
n)
> if instead of linking to one of the alternatives, the program could lin=
k to
> a script which chooses one of the alternatives based on run-time criter=
ia,
> such as an environment variable. If "alternatives" don't provide that
> feature, it's not too hard to write a script that does provide it
> (multispell itself comes close).

If you set the alternative to "multispell", you can always use ~/.multisp=
ellrc=20
for having different options per user. As you said,  modifying multispell=
 to=20
know about environment variables should not be that hard.

I have a working spec, if you want to test it, just tell me and in no tim=
e it=20
will be on your inbox.=20

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