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From the user perspective Claws is just a fancy Sylpheed, so it uses the
- same sylpheed setting files located in ~/.sylpheed.
+ same Sylpheed setting files located in ~/.sylpheed.
It's always a good idea to back up all files in ~/.sylpheed in case
you want to switch back to Sylpheed. (You don't have to backup the
* Why does the advanced filtering system not work?
Claws uses the new filtering system as soon as you define a new rule for it.
- Your old sylpheed filter rules will not be used. In subdirectory tools/ of
+ Your old Sylpheed filter rules will not be used. In subdirectory tools/ of
the distribution there is a Perl script called filter_conv.pl which converts
old filter rules to the claws filtering system.
a. Requirements
---------------
- The spell checker in sylpheed requires the Portable Spell Checker
- Interface Library pspell (http://pspell.sourceforge.net), version
- 0.12.2 or newer.
+ Note:
+ As for version 0.8.3 (and cvs version 0.8.2claws3), Sylpheed-Claws uses
+ the new GNU/aspell 0.50 for spell checking instead of the obsolete pspell
+ and old aspell 0.33.x. You will need to upgrade your system. See
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/aspell for instructions on how to do this.
- You will need also the actual spell checker. There are two alternatives:
+ The spell checker in Sylpheed requires the new GNU/aspell library
+ (http://www.gnu.org/software/aspell), version 0.50 or newer.
- i) ispell (http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell.html),
- which is found on quasi every distribution. You have then to
- install the pspell-ispell module found at the pspell site.
-
- ii) aspell (http://aspell.sourceforge.net). This spell checker
- must be installed after installing pspell. The version tested
- is .33.7 alpha. It has three different suggestion modes (fast
- -default- , normal, bad spellers), has the ability to learn
- from mistakes (default).
-
- And, last but not least, do not forget to install the dictionaries. Check
- the corresponding spell checker home page for more information on this.
+ You also need the dictionaries. Check GNU/aspell home page for how
+ to download and install them.
+
+ NB: The old dictionaries used by the old aspell will not work.
b. Configuring Sylpheed
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- Spell checking is enabled if you configure sylpheed appropriately. Add
- the option '--enable-pspell' when configuring. E.g.:
+ Spell checking is enabled if you configure Sylpheed appropriately. Add
+ the option '--enable-aspell' when configuring. E.g.:
- ./configure --enable-pspell
+ ./configure --enable-aspell
- The configure script needs 'pspell-config' in your path. If it is
- in weird places, use '--with-pspell-prefix' to tell the path to
- pspell-config. E.g., if pspell-config is really
- /foo/bar/pspell-config, then use:
+ The configure script needs the 'aspell' executable to be in your path.
+ If it is in unusual places, use '--with-aspell-prefix' to tell the path of
+ the aspell executable. E.g., if aspell's full path is
+ /foo/bar/bin/aspell, then use:
- ./configure --enable-pspell --with-pspell-prefix=/foo/bar
+ ./configure --enable-aspell --with-aspell-prefix=/foo/bar
- If you have problems with not found includes or libraries, check
- first where these are located, and add either options:
+ The '--with-aspell-prefix=PREFIX' option will let the configure
+ script search for includes and libraries in PREFIX/include and PREFIX/lib.
- --with-pspell-includes=/foo/bar/include
+ You can also specify manually the includes and libraries path by using
+ either following options:
- or
+ --with-aspell-includes=/foo/bar/include
- --with-pspell-libs=/foo/bar/lib
+ and/or
+
+ --with-aspell-libs=/rab/oof/lib
as appropriate.
- Configure script summarizes the options compiled in. Check that
- configure lists 'Pspell = yes'.
+ The configure script summarizes the options compiled in. Check that
+ it lists 'GNU/aspell = yes'.
Then proceed as usual, with 'make' and 'make install'.
c. Usage
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- NOTE: if you upgraded from 0.7.0claws, please reselect your default
- dictionary in the preferences.
+ NOTE: if you upgraded from Sylpheed-Claws 0.8.2 (or cvs version 0.8.2claws2)
+ or earlier, please check if the dictionary path was updated in the
+ Configuration -> Common Preferences -> Spell Checker menu. If not, update
+ it accordingly as explained below.
- After successful compiling, you need to tell sylpheed where your
- dictionaries reside. First run 'pspell-config pkgdatadir' on the
- shell to get their path.
+ After successful compiling, you need to tell Sylpheed where your
+ dictionaries reside. The configure script should have found it,
+ but in case it did not, run 'aspell config dict-dir' on the
+ shell to get the path to the dictionaries.
- Then run sylpheed and go to Configuration -> Common preferences ->
- Spell Checker. Check the box 'Enable spell checker (EXPERIMENTAL)' and
+ Then run Sylpheed and go to Configuration -> Common preferences ->
+ Spell Checker. Check the box 'Enable spell checker' and
use the file selector ('...' button) to select the path where the
dictionaries reside. Within the file selector, go to that directory
- and select *any* file in the file lists. Click ok. You should then
+ and select *any* file in the file lists. Click OK. Then, you should
be able to select your default dictionary.
When composing, misspelled words are highlighted. Click on any
highlighted word with the right mouse button to get a list of
suggestions. The first entry of the menu just displays the unknown
- word. Selecting "Accept in this session" (or hitting MOD1-Space,
- where MOD1 is usually the ALT key), will ignore this word and accept
- it in this message. Selecting the next entry "Add to dictionary", which
- is bound to MOD1-Enter combination will add the unknown word to the
- dictionary to learn it. The next entries are the suggested words.
- The first 15 suggestions can be accessed typing one of the first letters
+ word. Selecting 'Accept in this session' (or hitting MOD1-Space,
+ where MOD1 is usually the ALT key) will ignore this word and accept
+ it in this message. Selecting the next entry, "Add to dictionary", which
+ is bound to MOD1-Enter combination, will add the unknown word to your
+ personal dictionary to learn it. The next entries are the suggested words.
+ The first 15 suggestions can be accessed by typing one of the first letters
of Latin alphabet (if this does not suit your language, please send
- a mail to melvin.hadasht@free.fr). If you are using an aspell
- dictionary, you can use its 'learn from mistake' feature, by pressing
- the MOD1 key and selecting the suggestion (with the keyboard or with
- the mouse). See pspell manual §4.7.1 for an explanation of this
- feature.
+ a mail to melvin.hadasht@free.fr). Aspell has a 'learn from mistake'
+ function that can be used by pressing the MOD1 key and selecting the
+ suggestion (with the keyboard or with the mouse). See GNU/aspell manual
+ §6.3 for an explanation of this feature (also called 'replacement storing').
If you click with the right mouse button everywhere else, or if you
shift-right-click even on a misspelled word, you get the
configuration menu. 'Check all' highlights all misspelled words.
With this menu, you can also change the dictionary while editing.
Finally, you can change the suggestion mode, and the learn from
- misktakes feature (only when using an aspell dictionary).
+ misktakes feature.
Spell checking can also be done using keyboard shortcuts. In the
- "Edit" menu of the compose window, there are two menus "Check backwards
- misspelled word" and "Forward to next misspelled word". Add to them
- appropriate keyboard shortcuts. "Check backwards misspelled word"
+ 'Edit' menu of the compose window, there are two menus 'Check backwards
+ misspelled word' and 'Forward to next misspelled word'. Add to them
+ appropriate keyboard shortcuts. 'Check backwards misspelled word'
checks backwards from cursor position for the first misspelled word.
If it finds one, it displays the suggestions lists which can be handled
with the keyboard as described before. When the suggestion menu is
closed, the cursor returns to its original position to be able to
- continue editing. The "Forward to next misspelled word" do the same
+ continue editing. The 'Forward to next misspelled word' do the same
thing in the other direction but moves the cursor at the end of the
misspelled word. This way, you can spell check easily a whole message
- starting from its beginning and using the "Forward to next misspelled
- word" keyboard short cut.
+ starting from its beginning and using the 'Forward to next misspelled
+ word' keyboard short cut.
d. Known problems
-----------------
- i) libtool
-
- The only real known problems until now are configuration and
- compilation problems due to libtool interaction with pspell.
-
- If you do not compile pspell/aspell/pspell-ispell yourself, you
- need to install them with their devel packages.
-
- Pspell work with dynamic linking of libraries and thus uses the
- libltdl library of libtool. If you have weird problems when
- configuring showing 'libtool', chances are the libtool used when
- compiling the pspell package is not compatible with what you have
- on your system. The best solution, is to install the latest
- libtool AND compile yourself pspell package. I can't help more
- than that in this issue.
-
- After successfully compiled and used sylpheed with spell checking,
- the same problem can appear if you upgrade your libtool to a
- version which libltdl is incompatible to your older one. The
- symptoms are a crash when starting to compose. Disabling spell
- checking avoids the problem. The solution should be to recompile pspell.
-
- ii) New installed ispell dictionary are not detected
-
- Installing a new ispell dictionary needs an additional step. Go
- to the 'pkgdatadir' and run 'make-ispell-pwli'. You may need to
- su root.
+ No known problems as the time of this writing (0.8.2claws3).
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