{"thread":{"id":"32656","subject":"Changing Spell checker under GIT","startedAt":"2013-01-17T19:08:09Z","lastAt":"2013-01-17T20:17:11Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Mike Hall","Jonathan Nieder"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"207164","messageId":"189327E1D7E3B64286ED8625AAEC642C08633B01@MDHQEXCH01.enginsol.com","threadId":"32656","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Changing Spell checker under GIT","fromName":"Mike Hall","fromEmail":"mikehall@enginsol.com","sentAt":"2013-01-17T19:08:09Z","receivedAt":"2013-01-17T19:08:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mikehall@enginsol.com","avatar":null},"body":"As my organization has change from RedHat 5 to RedHat 6 Linux,\nit appears that RedHat is trying to replace (deprecate) ispell/aspell\nwith a different tool (hunspell).\n\nIt appears that GIT GUI current supports changing the dictionary used\nto support spell checks.   Is there currently a way to change the\nspell check program to be used(can't find in documentation or version\nof code that I'm currently installing), or would someone consider this\nas a future program change?\n\nThanks for your time.\nMike Hall"},{"id":"207166","messageId":"20130117201711.GB13449@google.com","threadId":"32656","inReplyTo":"189327E1D7E3B64286ED8625AAEC642C08633B01@MDHQEXCH01.enginsol.com","subject":"Re: Changing Spell checker under GIT","fromName":"Jonathan Nieder","fromEmail":"jrnieder@gmail.com","sentAt":"2013-01-17T20:17:11Z","receivedAt":"2013-01-17T20:17:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jrnieder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/281595?v=4"},"body":"Hi Mike,\n\nMike Hall wrote:\n\n> As my organization has change from RedHat 5 to RedHat 6 Linux,\n> it appears that RedHat is trying to replace (deprecate) ispell/aspell\n> with a different tool (hunspell).\n>\n> It appears that GIT GUI current supports changing the dictionary used\n> to support spell checks.   Is there currently a way to change the\n> spell check program to be used(can't find in documentation or version\n> of code that I'm currently installing), or would someone consider this\n> as a future program change?\n\ngit-gui uses the aspell command as a spellchecker.  A patch to add\nhunspell support sounds like it would be a nice addition.  If you'd\nlike to work on it, then \"lib/spellcheck.tcl\" in\n\n  git://repo.or.cz/git-gui\n\nmight be a good place to start.\n\nHope that helps,\nJonathan\n"}]}