[TxMt] Spell checking using Google

Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) oblivious at subtlegradient.com
Mon Apr 30 16:27:41 UTC 2007


On Apr 30, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 29.04.2007, at 13:54, Andy Herbert wrote:
>> Yesterday on the TextMate irc channel the [gSpell service for OSX] 
>> [1] was mentioned, which is a fairly neat way of spell checking  
>> (more details on the gSpell homepage.) I decided to try and  
>> simulate the service as a TextMate command which takes a selection  
>> and looks up the most reasonable alternative with Google.
>>
>> [The tmCommand is Available here.][2]
>>
>> [1]: http://nspindel.com/gspell/
>> [2]: http://homepage.mac.com/andy.herbert/.Public/Check%20Spelling% 
>> 20Using%20Google.tmCommand
>
>
>
> After learning Ruby a bit better, here comes the utf-8 version for  
> French, German etc. of it.
>
> You can set a TM shell variable TM_GSPELL_LANG to e.g. 'de' for  
> German, if you want the German spell checker. If it is unset 'en'  
> is the default.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hans
> PS Maybe a Ruby programmer could rewrite it better ;)

This so totally rocks!

	thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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