Re: Spellchecking the Classpath API documentation

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Scheid <address@hidden> writes:

Julian> I've written a doclet which runs all source code comments through
Julian> Ispell (default US dictionary) and accumulates the results in a text
Julian> file.

Cool idea.

Julian> A next step might be to pick up a suggestion from Thomas Zanders and
Julian> build a simple interactive tool similar to a spellchecker in a text
Julian> editor which, for each questionable word, shows the context in which
Julian> it appears and asks for action (usual spellchecker approach: replace
Julian> with suggestion a,b,c, replace with other string, ignore for now,
Julian> always ignore, add to dictionary.)

In emacs you can use flyspell-prog-mode; this will try to detect
misspellings in comments and strings.

Tom