bug#17742: Limitations of enchant

[Reuben Thomas]

On 15 September 2014 at 12:06, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

Obviously, it would be nice if upstream enchant could be made to add this functionality in the pipe mode: since it's already implemented in libenchant, that should be easy.

 

​On further reflection, this seemed the best route to take, so anyone interested in this bug may be interested in my patch to enchant that implements this: https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/pull/7

This has the advantages that it was simpler to program than libenchant support in Emacs, allows other ispell-compatible programs to use enchant for spelling, and will mean that most functionality should work in Emacs without patching.

If the pull-request is accepted by the enchant maintainers, I will add aspell's "replace for this session" command "$$ra"; this will require me to add support to ispell to detect a new enough enchant and use this feature as it would with aspell.

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