[RFC] git-gui and spell checking
- From
Adam Flott <adam@npjh.com>
- Date
- Feb 2, 2008, 18:07 UTC
- Message-ID
- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802021142320.21831@an.sumeria>
Shawn,
The other day I committed something with a comment that had a rather embarrassing misspelling. I had some more commits on top of that and I was about to dcommit it up to the companies SVN repository before I caught it. I reset the commits to fix it and all was well.
But it had me thinking about avoiding the problem in the future and how I handle it in other applications. So far, I think Opera has the best GUI spell checking[1]. I then went and poked around the git-gui code to see how hard it would be to learn some minimal Tk in order to implement such a thing.
[1]: http://npjh.com/etc/opera-spell-check.png
If Tk comes really natural and you could crank this sort of thing out and have the time to do so, I would really appreciate it. Otherwise I might take a stab at it. Reading the aspell documentation (what Opera) uses doesn't seem all that bad about operating with stdout/stdin. I browsed the web looking for "recipes" for making something very similar to the Opera spell checker, but I don't think I found any good resources which explain going from little Tcl/Tk to a workable simple GUI.
Is this some functionality you and/or others would like to see?
Adam