[Aquamacs-devel] Native spellchecking now in Aquamacs

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

Hello Konrad,
Thanks for the feedback.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Konrad Podczeck <
konrad.podczeck at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>
> (a) In Aquamacs 1.9 and before, flyspell-buffer and flyspell-region also
> found and marked repeated words. Unfortunately, this is not the case
> anymore. Could you reimplement this?
>
> This (and more) will come down the road with the incorporation of OS X
native grammar checking.


> (b) The handling of Tex-commands is not as goods as earlier: E. g. if I
> have text like \citep[See e.g. the first paragraph of the proof of
> Proposition~1.b.15 in][p. 25]{lintza} in a buffer, now the word in the last
> pair of braces is not ignored anymore


You're running into the capabilities of the underlying spellchecker, not of
Aquamacs.  The aspell and ispell programs can parse TeX and not report these
as misspellings to Aquamacs; the native spellchecker is unfortunately not
TeX-aware.  You can add items to `ispell-tex-skip-alists' in order to skip
arguments, but I'm not sure whether you can e.g. check some arguments and
not others, as you would want to for the given example.

and the status line reports the following
>
>      cite: info not available, use `^C &´to get it
>

that has do do with reftex crossrefs, not spelling, as far as I can tell.


> (c) In this regard, could the handling of tex-commands by the spell
> checking be made user customizable?
>
> ispell-tex-skip-alists offers some of this capability.  What exactly do you
have in mind?


> (d) Commented text, i.e. text in a line after % is also checked.
>
> Again, that's aspell/ispell--not Aquamacs--parsing the TeX for you and
deciding what not to mark.  If you want a fully TeX-aware spellchecker, you
may want to stick to aspell.  (You could still use it via the OS X spelling
panel if you installed cocoAspell, and cocoAspell's prefpane makes it very
easy to customize the list of TeX command to ignore, which arguments to
spellcheck, comments or not, etc.)

--Nathaniel
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