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Re: [Help-nano] Spell Checker Under Windows: Please Help


From: Eitan Adler
Subject: Re: [Help-nano] Spell Checker Under Windows: Please Help
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:16:26 -0400
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John Goche wrote:
> Thank you for your reply...
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if nano for windows supported spell checking using
> a simple dictionary file such as the traditional /usr/dict/words found in
> Unix environments (this file usually contains a list of words with one
> word per line), thus doing away with the need to rely on a separate
> program such as ispell?

That would not be the "unix way":
As Doug McIlroy summarized "...Write programs that do one thing and do
it well. Write programs to work together..."




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