Why was ispell removed?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 2 18:11:17 UTC 2014


On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:00:31AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:58:04 -0700 Stephen Fisher <sfisher at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> > > I recently noticed that the ispell port has been removed in favor of the
> > > aspell-ispell port ("ispell compatibility script for aspell").  Does
> > > anyone know why it was removed?  All I see on Fresh Ports is that it
> > > was deprecated and finally removed in January of this year.
> > >
> > > (The ispell script for aspell doesn't fully replicate ispell
> > > functionality such as checking words on the command line as shown below)
> > >
> > > Real ispell:
> > > >ispell
> > > @(#) International Ispell Version 3.3.02 12 Jun 2005
> > > word: word
> > > ok
> > >
> > >
> > > word: ^D
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > aspell script:
> > > >ispell
> > > Ispell compatibility script for Aspell.
> > > Usage: /usr/local/bin/ispell [options] -a|-l|-v[v]|-c|-e[1-4]|<file>
> >
> > Give hunspell a try.  It's actively maintained and backed by Mozilla,
> > OpenOffice, LibreOffice,...
> >
> > % hunspell -d en_US
> > Hunspell 1.3.3
> > Write a sontence here
> > *
> > *
> > & sontence 2 8: sentence, consistence
> > *
> >
> 
> I'll admit that I may just be too lazy to hunt around for it, but:
>  > hunspell -a en_US
> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.3.3)
> Can't open en_US.
> Exit 1
> 
> I looked though the system and found the following en_US dictionaries:
> /usr/local/lib/firefox/dictionaries/
> /usr/local/lib/libxul/dictionaries/
> /usr/local/lib/linux-libgtkembedmoz/components/myspell/
> I tried specifying one as the path (hunspell -p
> /usr/local/lib/firefox/dictionaries/ -d en_US, but it then said:
> Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named "en_US". (Got the
> same message for "-d en-US")
> 
> I have no idea why it can't open these files. They are present and
> readable. In any case, I am at a loss on how to make hunspell work.

Install the dictionaries from ports: pkg install en-hunspell I haven't checked
for firefox yet but at least libreoffice with automatically use them (firefox
should also be able to do the same)

regards,
Bapt
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