SciTE + aspell, on linux = how?

October 13, 2005 7:15 PM

LongShotQuestion. This is one of those small problems that drive me nuts. I've started using Linux. I've settled on SciTE as my all purpose text editor. The documentation makes it look really easy to add a command to invoke aspell. googling shows that it is assumed to be really easy but I can't find a simple example for *nix based systems, only for Windows. Does anyone here use SciTE with aspell? Or does anyone here have the ability to understand the documentation and tell me what I should add to my SciTE.properties file?
posted by Grod to computers & internet (2 comments total)

I know I'm not the only mefite to use the SciTE tag... someone must know the answer.
posted by Grod at 8:29 PM on October 13, 2005

Here's one way:

Put this in .SciTEUser.properties:

command.name.1.*=aspell
command.1.*=/usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt -e /usr/bin/aspell check ($FileDir)/($FileNameExt)
command.subsystem.1.*=0

Mind the bit in bold; if you don't have rxvt, change that to xterm or eterm or whatever. What this'll do is open up a terminal running aspell against the document you're working on. You won't be able to use aspell to correct the spelling, since SciTE doesn't reload the document after the command executes. But it will tell you when you fuck up!
posted by cmonkey at 9:16 AM on October 17, 2005