Comments on: How to get alpine to spell check your email https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/ Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Neal https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547505 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:19:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547505 Thanks Greg. Alpine also rules 🙂

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547504 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:01:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547504 The cli rules!

]]> By: Bonnie Dalzell https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547503 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:15:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547503 Thanks for this tutorial. It worked in May 2012 for Linux Mint XFCE to fix my alpine so it now does spell checking.

Although my system is modern enough to run a fancier e-mail program I really like alpine and find it faster to use than GUI email programs.

]]> By: Andreas https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547502 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:29:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547502 Hey,
I wanted to build a very minimalistic Arch Linux system with mostly text based apps so I came accross Alpine.

Thanks to you I can spell check now in Alpine 2.0.

Thanks a lot man
Greets from Germany
A

]]> By: Norm https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547501 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:41:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547501 Hello Greg: Google found your entry for getting alpine to spellcheck. Thanks! Works for Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) on debian sid.

]]> By: Tomer Guez https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547500 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:24:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547500 > How to get alpine to spell check your email

There is a good spell check program Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com). It works in all programs, including web, blog, emails.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547499 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:38:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547499 Here’s the big problem as I see it: Personal dictionaries, the dictionaries to which one ads words that the regular dictionaries do not have, should be (if the user wants) all the same file. One advantage of using alpine is that it uses the same dictionary as gedit, and aspell.

Openoffice.org writer, which is increasingly intercompatable with Word, and thus increasingly sucks, uses some crazy other thing. So, I’ve switched (for now anyway) to abiword, which uses aspell. However, abiword, even though it uses aspell, does not use the standard personal dictionary because of the way it is installed (it actually doens not use aspell, but rather, Enchant, which in turn does not even try to find the user’s dictionaries but sets up its own set of dictionaries. Which makes Enchant pretty much of a Software FAIL IMHO)

There is a way to fix this. Recompile abiword/enchant with different switches. Which I’m not going to do.

(I can’t even find the damn enchant pers. dictionary at this point)

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547498 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:26:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547498 Quite helpful. I’ve used pine and elm in the past, but wasn’t aware of alpine until I saw your post. Now I’ll use it when I want to send a quick email while SSH’ed into my machine at home.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547497 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:14:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547497 Thunderbird is not a text based application, so it would not do.

]]> By: davem https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547496 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:00:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/04/how-to-get-alpine-to-spell-che/#comment-547496 ..or just use Thunderbird. Job done.

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