From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 19 06:39:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15688 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 06:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15683 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 06:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1539.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.3]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19227; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 09:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA20410; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 07:38:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 07:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Adrian Penisoara cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Adrian Penisoara , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/5463: No spell check in pico editor because /usr/bin/spell doesn't exist In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > And BTW, he told me ispell won't work -- and as we don't have any other > standard speller in the ports I agreed to disable it in Pico (like I said, > Pico doesn't know to use anything else but the SPELLER defined at > compile-time) and leave it enabled in Pine (who may use an external > speller). > > What's your opionion ? I think someone should submit patches to the Pine people 1) to make Pine and Pico respect the SPELL(*) environment variable at run-time, and 2) to make ispell work. (*) Or if there is precedence for some other env. variable name, then use that instead. > > [If it was my comments specifically that you wanted, you > > should have felt free(er) to Cc: me.] > > Actually I asked the original poster of the PR... :) Okay... wasn't sure, since I closed the PR. :) -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message