Good afternoon, everyone...
First, a little bit about the system configuration so you can more easily
understand the scope of the problem:
This is CentOS/RedHat with all current patches
This is Jed Jed Version: 0.99.16
S-Lang Version: 1.4.9
I use Jed nearly entirely as a default text editor/composer, and write
both technical and non-technical manuals extensively in it every day. It
is by far the best editor for my purposes. However, in the latest
permutation of Aspell a number of minor glitches have arisen.
Since there is a bit of business where Aspell is going to eventually
replace Ispell, when you execute the "fake" Ispell binary, Ispell returns
the following information:
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
The spelling lookup in Jed works *better* than Ispell ever did, with more
words and a greater likelihood of preventing misspelled words, not to
mention it offers more related words than Ispell. However, if a word is
*not* misspelled, and probably should be placed in the personal
dictionary, there is no means to do that from within an editing session,
short of manually adding it later.
Is there a work-around that will allow a user to add a new word to the
personal dictionary, typically called .aspell.en.pws in the user's home
directory, while within a Jed editing session? Short of that, could
someone on the Jed development team consider writing an interface to
Aspell for the current ispell configuration? (such as aspell_init.sl,
aspell_common and aspell.sl).
Thus far, I have compiled and run Jed on the following diverse Linux
machines, all with pretty much the same configuration:
RedHat 9 (Nash), as well as 6,7 and 8.x
CentOS 3.x,4.x and now 4.1
Debian Sarge
FreeBSD 5.x
Mandrake (Mandriva for the politically-correct) 9.0, 10 & 10.1
I've been closely following the continuing development of Jed, but this
little glitch, which isn't *really* a Jed issue, but affects it directly,
has thus far eluded me entirely. Any hints, anyone?
Dave
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