Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 09:43:43 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@SDF.ORG> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why was ispell removed? Message-ID: <20141202094343.2be67f01@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20141201205804.GB9933@SDF.ORG> References: <20141201205804.GB9933@SDF.ORG>
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:58:04 -0700 Stephen Fisher <sfisher@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
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