[imp] Re: Aspell questions

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> First, is there a minimum required version of aspell to use with IMP?  I had
> aspell 0.33, that shipped with RHEL 3 installed and when you had switched to
> HTML composition  in the Compose screen and ran a spell check, aspell 
> started a
> runaway process that was eventually killed when all memory was used up.  lsof
> showed that the aspell process was trying to check a bunch of deleted files.
> It was fine with plain text messages.  It wasn't happy with the -H option on
> the command line either.
>
> So I upgraded to 0.60.2 from source today and that works great (provided one
> installs a dictionary to go along with it - RPMS make it too convenient to
> forget some of the more mundane details :)  And that fixed the problem - it
> checks fine.

So I guess that's the minimum. My debian install has a 0.60 version, so 
I guess it's pretty common.

> But now another problem surfaces.  Signatures for the various identities are
> stored in an array and each line is broken with \n.  When you switch to HTML
> composition, the \n are converted to <br \> and aspell doesn't like that and
> wants to recommend a spelling replacement.  So is there a problem in the
> Text_Filter calls that go from text2html?  Or is aspell too rigid in not
> recognizing HTML code?

That's what the -H is for...

> Also, I had the same idea that was asked below, regarding saving words in a
> personal dictionary (like names or acronyms that you commonly use):
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=imp&m=110177896728317&w=2
>
> I see it hasn't made the TODO list yet for imp - anyone working on it?

Not that I know of.

-chuck

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