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Title: Spell Check In Xemacs
Post by: Antikx on February 15, 2006, 02:22:22 pm

I've installed XEmacs (to ext2 formatted SD) from the unstable feed and installed ftp so that it can download packages through Xemacs. I installed Ispell through Xemacs (looks like it got installed to SD card)  but it can't find ispell when I try to use it.

Should I be installing it to Z RAM? Do the packages need to be recompiled for the Z's CPU?

Title: Spell Check In Xemacs
Post by: pgas on February 15, 2006, 02:44:09 pm

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Should I be installing it to Z RAM? Do the packages need to be recompiled for the Z's CPU?

the elisp package is a front-end to  either ispell or aspell ( http://aspell.sourceforge.net/ (http://aspell.sourceforge.net/) ) , two unix utilities.

Title: Spell Check In Xemacs
Post by: Antikx on February 15, 2006, 05:46:15 pm

That makes sense I guess.
Has anyone compiled either of them for the Zaurus?
Is anyone using something else to do spell check in xemacs?

Title: Spell Check In Xemacs
Post by: iamasmith on February 15, 2006, 06:04:26 pm

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That makes sense I guess.
Has anyone compiled either of them for the Zaurus?
Is anyone using something else to do spell check in xemacs?
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As much as I can confirm is they are both ARM friendly.

I have them both built and have ispell integrated with AbiWord.... on OpenBSD though

- Andy

Title: Spell Check In Xemacs
Post by: Antikx on February 20, 2006, 03:12:57 pm

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That makes sense I guess.
Has anyone compiled either of them for the Zaurus?
Is anyone using something else to do spell check in xemacs?
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As much as I can confirm is they are both ARM friendly.

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Sorry for my ignorance but do you mean that the binary is all ready compiled with ARM support, or they are easy to compile with ARM support?

Title: Spell Check In Xemacs
Post by: iamasmith on February 21, 2006, 11:54:34 am

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That makes sense I guess.
Has anyone compiled either of them for the Zaurus?
Is anyone using something else to do spell check in xemacs?
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As much as I can confirm is they are both ARM friendly.

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Sorry for my ignorance but do you mean that the binary is all ready compiled with ARM support, or they are easy to compile with ARM support?
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Some short sighted programming practices assume that software will...

1. Only run on Linux and not other Posix based systems.

2. Only run on i386 or some specific architecture and may...

i. Use assembler instructions for performance without providing a non optimised version using plain C/C++ or whatever.
ii. Not explicitely cast certain types in C where differences in the architecture or compiler implementation either exists or is traditional. It is not strictly defined in the gcc specificatioin if declaring a value as char alone specifies a signed char or an unsigned char, i386 defaults to signed whereas ARM defaults to unsigned. see [a href=\"http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/faqs/signedchar.php]http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/faqs/signedchar.php[/url] for an example.

So ARM friendly I class as satisfying point 2, ispell and aspell will also compile on non Linux systems without too much 'jiggery-pokery' too

- Andy