Questions tagged [spell-checking]
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Spell check comments in vim
I'm a C/C++ professional programmer who makes lots of spelling mistakes in comments. I want to configure vim such that the spell-checker only looks for misspelled words within comments. If necessary I'm willing to add special symbols around the…
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How to make the zsh "correct" functionality remember my spell-correction decisions
I have enabled correction (I wouldn't call it autocorrection specifically because of this issue) in zsh by enabling setopt correct in my .zshrc.
Now, when I type dtae in a terminal, I get:
dtae
zsh: correct 'dtae' to 'date' [nyae]? y
Tue Mar…
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Do spellcheckers exist that are aware of Markdown?
I would like to run a spellchecker over my articles before I publish them. I think aspell is ok, but it should not try to check code blocks:
asdfasdfa adsfa sdfa text to check adsfasd f
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a wild code block appeared!
thisHas quiteOften() some…
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How can I create my own spelling file for vim?
At the moment I'm writing a document where I need to use a lot of acronyms, technical language, and non German words.
Now I was wondering if I could create a spelling file (tech_speak) which checks for this technical language so I can use the…
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Make hunspell work with emacs and german language
I want to make hunspell work with emacs24 and a german dictionary on a ubuntu 13.04-box.
To do so I installed hunspell and hunspell-de and added the following to my .emacs file:
(setq ispell-program-name "hunspell")
(setq ispell-dictionary…
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Is there a grammar-checker under linux?
While there are spell-checkers but AFAIK they are limited to spell-checking. Are there any grammar-checking utilities in free software and more precisely Debian. Even if not in Debian, then in free software. I am using the spell-checking tag as…
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Vim spell punctuation for ⸮
I am finding myself using the point d'irony (⸮) more and more. However, vim spelling does not recognise it as a valid punctuation character.
How can I add it to vim so that the spelling works?
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hunspell: add word to dictionary from command line
From hunspell man page:
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When in the -a mode, hunspell will also accept lines of single
words prefixed with any of '*', '&', '@', '+', '-', '~', '#',
'!', '%', '`', or '^'. A line starting with '*' tells hunspell
to insert…
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How can I tell which dictionary kate/KDE is using for spell checking?
I noticed that kate thinks that a particular word is spelled correctly, even though is it misspelled. When I check the word using aspell or enchant utilities, they both correctly identify it as being misspelled. How can I tell which spell checker…
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aspell installs too many languages
I have installed aspell-en and aspell-de. I have expected this will give me the choice between en and de languages. However, the package has installed many versions of en and de languages and now when I want to select my spell language, I get too…
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Gedit or an other non-commandline editor with the ability to spell-check two languages at the same time
I'm searching for an editor with the ability to spell-check two languages at the same time (German and English). Gedit can't do it out of the box.
But I want to use Gedit. It should be possible by merging the English and German dictionaries and…
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Thunderbird spellcheck does not work sometimes when replying to message
I am using automatic spellcheck in Thunderbird v68.8 on Debian Buster (misspelled words are automatically underlined) it works reliably when I create a new empty message but when I am replying to a message (either by clicking on "reply" or "reply…
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E763 with vim and spell checker
I want to add germand spell checking to vim. So I set
:set spl=de_de spell
then there is a dialogue, where I can create a directory called .vim/spell. And then there is another question where I can download a .spl file. And again for a .sug file.…
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Spelling mistakes in the file?
I have a file with spelling mistakes in it. It has a lot of mistakes I need to find all mistakes and correct them.
I used :
spell [filename]
it shows me spelling mistakes
thiis
iz
wurse
...
and many others.
How can I correct all mistakes in one…
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