Hi: Yes, the "What is the language "British"?" thread has been a long one, but I, for one, have thoroughly enjoyed the break and the education. Just proves most people prefer sharing to ranting. On Fri, 2006-01-09 at 20:48 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:15 +0900, Ian Astley wrote: > > I have done enough mucking about with altering set-ups and am > > wondering if there is any sort-of painless way of introducing my > > etymological neurosis into the resident spell-checkers on Unix > > systems? > > You might have to do what I used to do with dictionaries not of my > locale: Spell check a document that I know is perfectly typed, and add > every word the spell checker complains about to the local dictionary. > That gets most of the problems out of the way in the first go. > While we are talking about specialized or personalized spellcheckers, does any one know where I can get a computer language subsidiary checker/dictionary. I want something that will let me write 'ls -a' or 'cd ~/homename/sprdshts/*' or 'googled' or M$-isms in a message without turning my paragraph red with underlines. -- Regards Bill
