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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: Spell Checker
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.001653.28533@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Dec17.172112.4750@cas.org> <1992Dec18.145301.15098@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 00:16:53 GMT
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- > lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
- >>That would be useful. When _I_ try it, it fails due to the fact that
- >>OW 3.0 drops the selection before ispell gets a chance to complete its task...
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- howie@sunny.dab.ge.com writes:
- > When I implemented this feature in my .text_extras_menu menu I had the same
- > problem. [...]
- > Sun has no plans to fix this problem in the near future (A documented bug).
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- One way round it might be to put the output in /tmp/textsw_shelf.
- Another might be to run the spell in the background, but that's not as good.
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- Is it really that hard to fix the XView textsw bug here?
-
- Lee
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