# Changing Spell checker under GIT

2 messages from 2013-01-17 to 2013-01-17. Participants: Mike Hall, Jonathan Nieder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32656

## Mike Hall, 2013-01-17 19:08

Subject: Changing Spell checker under GIT
Message-ID: <189327E1D7E3B64286ED8625AAEC642C08633B01@MDHQEXCH01.enginsol.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/189327E1D7E3B64286ED8625AAEC642C08633B01%40MDHQEXCH01.enginsol.com

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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?

Thanks for your time.
Mike Hall
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## Jonathan Nieder, 2013-01-17 20:17

Subject: Re: Changing Spell checker under GIT
Message-ID: <20130117201711.GB13449@google.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20130117201711.GB13449%40google.com
In-Reply-To: <189327E1D7E3B64286ED8625AAEC642C08633B01@MDHQEXCH01.enginsol.com>

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Hi Mike,

Mike Hall wrote:

> 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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