Is there a way to add a spellchecker to Sylpheed mail on Windows?

[Jonas Schneider]

Is there a way to add a spellchecker to Sylpheed mail on Windows?

When I look at the Sylpheed FAQ, it talks about using "xterm" and "iSpell",
but those seem to not be Windows apps.
http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/faq/faq-2.html

[quote]
2.19 Q19 Can I use a spell checker with Sylpheed?

A. Yes. You can use ispell for this. In Common Preferences, in the spot
where you can define an alternative editor (as long as you do not use that,
of course), you enter "xterm -e ispell %s". Do not enter the quotes. With
this set up, you can have spell checked when writing an e-mail by hitting
the "Editor" button in the compose window.

Note that you can enter the xterm type of your choice, so wterm, eterm and
aterm should also work, as long as they are installed on your system.
[/quote]

Is there a way to add a spellchecker to Sylpheed mail on Windows?

[Paul]

There's an example of a Cygwin package here. They seem to use
"aspell", included.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cygnome/files/Internet%20Applications/sylpheed-claws-0.9.6/

Cygwin is, to some extent, "portable". For small utilities,
I grab the EXE and the two runtime DLLs and put them in
some folder in my user space, and I can run the EXE from the
command line. Your utility has a bit of "tree" structure to it,
and I don't know if that's going to work or not.

In any case, I don't like to leave the entire Cygwin tree on C:
and I may work in a VM, until I have the materials downloaded,
then figure out how to get them into my "real" OS. Some Cygwin
ports are "good" ports, but occasionally some utility that dwells
on the low level details of the file system, is just dreadful. I
don't anticipate a problem of that type for this program.

*******

The "ispell" program was old, even when I started
using a Unix box. It lists 1971 as the first incarnation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Aspell

"...Aspell, is a free software spell checker
designed to replace Ispell."

And there's no Aspell in the gnuwin32 tree that I can see.
The GNU people aren't otherwise all that "friendly".

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

HTH,
Paul

[Shadow]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:40:01 +0000 (UTC), Jonas Schneider
<Jonas123...@arcor.de> wrote:

>Is there a way to add a spellchecker to Sylpheed mail on Windows?

I've been using it for years and NO, there isn't.
Amazing, I hadn't noticed it before you mentioned it...
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[Jonas Schneider]

In <news:kaa99chtg3v5bncqm...@4ax.com>, Shadow suggested:

>>Is there a way to add a spellchecker to Sylpheed mail on Windows?
>
> I've been using it for years and NO, there isn't.
> Amazing, I hadn't noticed it before you mentioned it...

Thanks. I saw the Cygwin suggestion, but that's a lot of effort (and might
not work) so I will probably look for another MUA since I only recently
installed Sylpheed.

Too bad because I liked it otherwise, but, I just wrote "aggregious" in a
note to my kid's English teacher at school regarding the grammar in her
instructions to the kids, which, um, kind of sort of diminishes my intended
message!

:(

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <o6vgc1$ebu$1...@news.albasani.net>, Jonas Schneider

<Jonas123...@arcor.de> writes:
>Is there a way to add a spellchecker to Sylpheed mail on Windows?

[]
I don't know about Sylpheed as such (never heard of it!), but many years
ago, I came across general-purpose spelling checkers that could be used
with any Windows software, and googling

free Windows spellchecker

still seems to find lots of them. They probably vary in degree of how
well they integrate with your chosen software - I imagine the less good
ones will require you to highlight all your text (or even, at worst,
oblige you to copy it into their own window to check it), but I'd be
surprised if there aren't some that spellcheck as you type (the wavy red
line under suspect words being a common meme), assuming that's how you
want to use them. Last time I actually used such (sorry, I don't seem to
have it on this machine as my news/email software _does_ have its own
one), ISTR there was the facility to add words to its dictionary (or to
a custom dictionary), too.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Cumulatively, however, they do get my goat, on my wick and up my nose, to the
extent I am angry enough to stick a wick up a goat's nose and to hell with the
consequences. - Eddie Mair, RT 2016/2/27-3/4

[Shadow]

You should subcontract when writing to English teachers....
never do it yourself.
No idea WHY they forgot the spellchecker. They've been in
email programs since the dawn of PC history ...

You can always use Claws mail, which is a branch of Sylpheed:

http://www.claws-mail.org/win32/dictionaries.php

What I DON'T like about Claws is it has too many tempting
plugins, many of which are unsafe. If you just keep to the basic
install + dictionaries you should be OK.

[burfordTjustice]

Says the clown who helped make people "disappear" in Brazil
and now can never leave.