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Adding ispell after slash is installed

posted by Krow on 12:14 AM April 8th, 2003      

Hi, I read the (archived) thread at: http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/1 724238&mode=thread and I have "Running Weblogs with Slash", so I know that "... Slash 2.2 has added an ispell compatibility mode. If the ispell program exists and points to an ispell binary, the Edit Story page will include a list of potentially misspelled words.)" (thanks blagger), but I don't know how exactly what to add, and into what directory,.

I installed freebsd 5.0, then built and installed the slashcode port, and now I've installed ispell. I then tried adding symlinks to ispell into various directories, including /usr/local/slash/bin, and restarting my browser and the freebsd box. Nothing obvious changes. Can someone tell me exactly which file to put where to enable spell-checking? I'm running slash-2.2.6 on Freebsd 5.0.

Thanks...

P.S. Sorry if I misspelled anything, but...

• On FreeBSD 4.8 (Score:2)

  by ericdano (1000)

  I did nothing more than just build the port and I think enable a VAR in the slash vars to enable ispell.

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  • Exactly. (Score:2)

    by Vladinator (1112)

    You beat me to it. Here's the detailed instructions for the guy:
    
    

    1. Log in.
       
    2. su to root, or do all of the following with sudo
       
    3. cd /usr/ports/textproc/ispell
       
    4. make && make install
       
    5. make clean
       
    6. log out, and change the var in slashcode.
       

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    • Re:Exactly. (Score:1)

      by nrh (4989)

      Thanks. For future users, let me just add that the thing that was hanging me up was that the var "ispell" must be set to the full pathname of ispell -- "/usr/local/bin/ispell" in my case, not just "ispell". Thanks for all the help!
      • Excellent (Score:2)

        by Vladinator (1112)

        Excellent point! That could trip up a lot of people.

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  • Re:On FreeBSD 4.8 (Score:1)

    by froomkin (2074)

    How do you add words to the ispell dictionary?
    • Re:On FreeBSD 4.8 (Score:2)

      by ericdano (1000)

      um, try doing a "man ispell"

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      It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.