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Re: Changing Spell checker under GIT

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2013, 20:17 UTC
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<20130117201711.GB13449@google.com>
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<189327E1D7E3B64286ED8625AAEC642C08633B01@MDHQEXCH01.enginsol.com>
Hi Mike,
Mike Hall wrote:
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> As my organization has change from RedHat 5 to RedHat 6 Linux,
> it appears that RedHat is trying to replace (deprecate) ispell/aspell
> with a different tool (hunspell).
>
> It appears that GIT GUI current supports changing the dictionary used
> to support spell checks.   Is there currently a way to change the
> spell check program to be used(can't find in documentation or version
> of code that I'm currently installing), or would someone consider this
> as a future program change?

git-gui uses the aspell command as a spellchecker. A patch to add hunspell support sounds like it would be a nice addition. If you'd like to work on it, then "lib/spellcheck.tcl" in

  git://repo.or.cz/git-gui
might be a good place to start.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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  1. Mike HallJan 17, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederJan 17, 2013

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