webb@leadsv.UUCP (J.J. Webb) (11/22/88)
novice question ... where can i find a dict. and spell checker for
freemacs?
novice question 2 ... is there a thesaurus?
novice question 3 ... if they do exist, how does one go about
installing them?
thanks, in advance, for any and all help on this matter.
.....jjwebb..... nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (11/25/88)
In article <4794@leadsv.UUCP> webb@leadsv.UUCP (J.J. Webb) writes:
novice question ... where can i find a dict. and spell checker for
freemacs?
EMACSPEL.ARC, which is available from all the usual places.
novice question 2 ... is there a thesaurus?
No, but it'd be neat to have...
novice question 3 ... if they do exist, how does one go about
installing them?
SPELLER (contained in EMACSPEL) is a general purpose spelling checker
engine that goes TSR when you run it. It responds to requests made to
interrupt 0x82. Freemacs has a primitive #(sc,...) that generates
requests and returns the value. So you can implement ispell for
Freemacs, and I'm waiting for someone (else) to do so... :-)
Right now, spell-word is the only spelling checker implemented.
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