Bug#487732: Object to removing ispell without an alternative with -l
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 06:32:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I saw the discussion about removing ispell go past a while back and didn't
> think much about it, but today I wrote a check for one of my packages to
> spell-check the documentation and discovered that ispell is the only
> easily usable spell-checker in Debian currently for this application.
>
> The interface I want is the ispell -l interface, which prints the
> misspelled words to standard output. The alternatives that I know of are
> aspell and hunspell.
>
> aspell doesn't support -l, only the more complex -a interface, unless I'm
> missing something in its documentation.
It is unfortunate that the option has a different name for aspell than for
ispell, but 'aspell list' will have the same effect as 'ispell -l'
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Agustin
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