Is there a *good* UNIX spell checker?

Stephen Riehm [Romulis] s887212 at minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU
Thu Dec 27 11:31:26 AEST 1990


clp at megadon.UUCP (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
> [is there a spelling] program for Unix?
ispell seems to do the job nicely.. failing this spell is also not too
bad.. and even gives you the option of american <standard> or british
<-b option>

for vi users.. the following macro works nicekly with ispell.. not so well
with spell tho.

:map _S :w!^m:!ispell %^M:e!^M^M

have fun

Steve [aka Romulis]



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