From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ea99940253996e3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-03 07:15:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:16:10 -0500 From: "William" Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada References: <2cfd1a4e.0309252032.3e3c0a1a@posting.google.com> <863cefjy6l.fsf@strudel.futureapps.de> <86ad8i7d1d.fsf_-_@huldreheim.huldreskog.no> Subject: Re: Spell-checking source code (Was: ISO Studies of underscores...) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:20:37 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-Trace: sv3-8HokYdF4KJJGtAmkG4U1ThU+OhHeiN+KHBQLOcM4hDl0V+9Wem2cJPpKpPpvz/Jrq9ZnV1IppgtFfIo!/0jWc7Jsocw8P9Araa47SvtRmBz3SLAI/CiWiMceFhTVpwb7QMNpBvEnLjFtSl8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.software-eng:30 comp.programming:282 comp.lang.c++:566 comp.lang.ada:156 Date: 2003-10-03T09:20:37-05:00 List-Id: "William" wrote in message news:s9adnXrUZfx-H-CiRVn-gw@giganews.com... > > I've used a few things that did have spell checking. (One had a spell > check button on certain text fields in its forms, kinda neat.) My favorite > text and source editor, Ultraedit, has a pretty good spell checker and it > can be expanded to handle reserved words. I don't think it handles > mixed case (or case at all) though. I've never used it except to check > comments or display text. -Wm Talking to myself here... I occurred to me that its syntax highlighting makes spell checking reserved words less necessary - and the syntax highlighting can deal with case. -Wm