Bug#647325: Spell files include misspelling "interpretor"

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Wed Nov 2 16:44:37 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:17:54PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:20:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:13:14PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:17:21PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > The spell files used by ":set spell" do not flag the misspelling
> > > > "interpretor".  Every dictionary I've checked either doesn't list it or
> > > > lists it only as a misspelling of "interpreter".
> > > 
> > > They're based on hunspell,
> > 
> > Ah, excellent.  Do updates from hunspell occur manually, at build time,
> > or at runtime?  (That will determine whether I just need to reassign
> > this bug against hunspell, or whether I also need to request a rebuild
> > of vim against the new hunspell.)
> 
> Neither, actually.  The vim packages only ship the english spellfiles,
> as provided in the upstream source.  Any other language is downloaded,
> if the user allows, as described in ':help spellfile.vim'.

Oh.  So, what's the procedure for fixing an issue like this in one of
the english spellfiles?

> We had done some work a few years ago to make language-specific
> spellfiles packages, but at the time none of the maintainers had
> machines that could actually build all the spellfiles.  The process
> typically ran afoul of the OOM killer.  As such, we asked for the
> removal of those packages (#471285).
> 
> I might actually have a system that can build those files now, so I
> could potentially revisit that.

Seems preferable to finish the work you previously mentioned to make vim
use enchant and read the original dictionaries directly, rather than
working on generating vim spellfiles.

- Josh Triplett





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