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1 ;;; spell.el --- spelling correction interface for Emacs
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
4 ;; 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: wp, unix
8
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10
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
25
26 ;;; Commentary:
27
28 ;; This mode provides an Emacs interface to the UNIX spell(1) program.
29 ;; Entry points are `spell-buffer', `spell-word', `spell-region' and
30 ;; `spell-string'.
31
32 ;; See also ispell.el for an interface to the ispell program.
33
34 ;;; Code:
35
36 (defgroup spell nil
37 "Interface to the UNIX spell(1) program."
38 :prefix "spell-"
39 :group 'applications)
40
41 (defcustom spell-command "spell"
42 "*Command to run the spell program."
43 :type 'string
44 :group 'spell)
45
46 (defcustom spell-filter nil
47 "*Filter function to process text before passing it to spell program.
48 This function might remove text-processor commands.
49 nil means don't alter the text before checking it."
50 :type '(choice (const nil) function)
51 :group 'spell)
52
53 ;;;###autoload
54 (put 'spell-filter 'risky-local-variable t)
55
56 ;;;###autoload
57 (defun spell-buffer ()
58 "Check spelling of every word in the buffer.
59 For each incorrect word, you are asked for the correct spelling
60 and then put into a query-replace to fix some or all occurrences.
61 If you do not want to change a word, just give the same word
62 as its \"correct\" spelling; then the query replace is skipped."
63 (interactive)
64 (spell-region (point-min) (point-max) "buffer"))
65
66 ;;;###autoload
67 (defun spell-word ()
68 "Check spelling of word at or before point.
69 If it is not correct, ask user for the correct spelling
70 and `query-replace' the entire buffer to substitute it."
71 (interactive)
72 (let (beg end spell-filter)
73 (save-excursion
74 (if (not (looking-at "\\<"))
75 (forward-word -1))
76 (setq beg (point))
77 (forward-word 1)
78 (setq end (point)))
79 (spell-region beg end (buffer-substring beg end))))
80
81 ;;;###autoload
82 (defun spell-region (start end &optional description)
83 "Like `spell-buffer' but applies only to region.
84 Used in a program, applies from START to END.
85 DESCRIPTION is an optional string naming the unit being checked:
86 for example, \"word\"."
87 (interactive "r")
88 (let ((filter spell-filter)
89 (buf (get-buffer-create " *temp*")))
90 (save-excursion
91 (set-buffer buf)
92 (widen)
93 (erase-buffer))
94 (message "Checking spelling of %s..." (or description "region"))
95 (if (and (null filter) (= ?\n (char-after (1- end))))
96 (if (string= "spell" spell-command)
97 (call-process-region start end "spell" nil buf)
98 (call-process-region start end shell-file-name
99 nil buf nil "-c" spell-command))
100 (let ((oldbuf (current-buffer)))
101 (save-excursion
102 (set-buffer buf)
103 (insert-buffer-substring oldbuf start end)
104 (or (bolp) (insert ?\n))
105 (if filter (funcall filter))
106 (if (string= "spell" spell-command)
107 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) "spell" t buf)
108 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) shell-file-name
109 t buf nil "-c" spell-command)))))
110 (message "Checking spelling of %s...%s"
111 (or description "region")
112 (if (save-excursion
113 (set-buffer buf)
114 (> (buffer-size) 0))
115 "not correct"
116 "correct"))
117 (let (word newword
118 (case-fold-search t)
119 (case-replace t))
120 (while (save-excursion
121 (set-buffer buf)
122 (> (buffer-size) 0))
123 (save-excursion
124 (set-buffer buf)
125 (goto-char (point-min))
126 (setq word (downcase
127 (buffer-substring (point)
128 (progn (end-of-line) (point)))))
129 (forward-char 1)
130 (delete-region (point-min) (point))
131 (setq newword
132 (read-string (concat "`" word
133 "' not recognized; edit a replacement: ")
134 word))
135 (flush-lines (concat "^" (regexp-quote word) "$")))
136 (if (not (equal word newword))
137 (progn
138 (goto-char (point-min))
139 (query-replace-regexp (concat "\\b" (regexp-quote word) "\\b")
140 newword)))))))
141
142
143 ;;;###autoload
144 (defun spell-string (string)
145 "Check spelling of string supplied as argument."
146 (interactive "sSpell string: ")
147 (let ((buf (get-buffer-create " *temp*")))
148 (save-excursion
149 (set-buffer buf)
150 (widen)
151 (erase-buffer)
152 (insert string "\n")
153 (if (string= "spell" spell-command)
154 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) "spell"
155 t t)
156 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) shell-file-name
157 t t nil "-c" spell-command))
158 (if (= 0 (buffer-size))
159 (message "%s is correct" string)
160 (goto-char (point-min))
161 (while (search-forward "\n" nil t)
162 (replace-match " "))
163 (message "%sincorrect" (buffer-substring 1 (point-max)))))))
164
165 (provide 'spell)
166
167 ;;; arch-tag: 7eabb848-9c76-431a-bcdb-0e0592d2db04
168 ;;; spell.el ends here