Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Vim 7 includes a native spellchecker. It uses its own spell file > format which can be created using Myspell *.aff/*.dic files (the same > as for Mozilla and OpenOffice). The spell files are rather large, so > it's not feasible to bundle them with vim unconditionally.
are them interchangeable? > > Building a spell file from source is tricky and requires huge amounts > of RAM and some fairly obscure dependencies. Upstream ship pre-built > spell files, and I believe it would make most sense for us to use > those. I second that. > > Note that spell files have to be generated for each internal character > set that may be used. This generally means utf-8 (used by gtk2/qt gvim > internally no matter what) and the appropriate iso-8859- code for the > country in question. > That should cover most uses. > Questions: > > * app-vim or app-dicts for the spell files? app-dicts if they can be non vim only... > > * Will there be sufficient interest from other developers to make this > worthwhile? if is vim only I'm not sure. > > * Is anyone going to get upset about the character set decisions? > As usual I'm afraid... > * Does anyone think we should make users build spell lists from source, > even though it can require several GBytes of RAM? Only if requested by user (think about an useflag) lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
