Bug#490987: [aspell, dictionaries-common] VIM spellcheck

[Agustin Martin]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:04:39AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > I would have preferred  vim spellchecking
> > support being done through libaspell or libhunspell (or through enchant to be
> > spellchecker independent) or at least reuse the same previous dictionary formats
> > (raw myspell or hunspell or aspell hashes), instead of a different incompatible
> > format (the hashes created by vim from the myspell dicts).
> 
> RedHat distributes a patched version of Vim that uses libhunspell.  When
> I found out about that, I spent a little time looking at patching Vim to
> use enchant.  At the time, I decided to leave things as is because it
> seemed that Vim's spellchecking was much more accurate than aspell,
> ispell, etc. on their own and I didn't have enough time to really dig in
> and come up with a proper patch.
> 
> If/when I do revisit the issue, I think it'd be best to do some
> comparative testing to see how RH's patched version performs relative to
> Vim's native spellchecking.  If they're equitable, then move forward and
> try to implement a proper patch (not using hard-coded paths, as RH does)
> using one of the spell libraries (likely enchant).

Thanks for the reply,

Once real comparison is available, if there is something that dictionaries-common
can do for a better integration, let us know. Same if you think something should
be added to the spellchecking and wordlists policy document.

Cheers,

-- 
Agustin