[pmmail-list] Big Request - Spell Checker

[Marek Wojciechowski]

I think the best solution would be providing interface for ispell in
PMMail (eg. the way they do for PGP). That would solve also the problem
of supporting other languages than english.
At the moment I am using ispell as "external editor" for PMMail and it
works, but it is not an elegant solution.

Marek

On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:42:59 -0500, John Swartzentruber wrote:

>I think my biggest current day to day problem with PMMail is how bad
>the spell checker is. If the spell checker can't be replaced with
>something reasonable, could it at least be tweaked so that the
>suggested replacement word is the original word that I typed?
>
>For example, I recently wrote a message that included the word
>"aquaintance". This is a misspelling. All I need to do is pop in a 'c'
>after the 'a' and all would be well. Unfortunately, the correct
>spelling isn't anywhere in the suggested words list and the suggested
>word that I must edit is "aquanaut", which is nowhere near the correct
>spelling of the word I want. The end result is that about 80% of the
>time, I need to type the entire word all over again, or else exit the
>spell checker to make the correction. I don't think it would require a
>significant change in the short-term to just put the misspelled word
>into the editor so that I can correct it myself.
>
>And I know that people can recognize patterns much better than software
>can, but I don't think it would take too much software intelligence to
>guess that "acquaintance" would be a better match than "aquanaut".
>
>
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