Re: Setting speller from a shell script

[Find Marbles]

Thank you very much. It works perfectly now. I'm trilingual, english being my 3rd language, so I need to change the spellers constantly depending on the text.

For anyone wondering, here is my tiny script for spellchecker.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

sel=$(printf 'el\nde\nen' | fzf)
aspell -x -c --lang="$sel" $1

Am So., 6. Nov. 2022 um 09:34 Uhr schrieb Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>:

Op 05-11-2022 om 14:13 schreef Find Marbles:
> I know that a speller can be set in the nanorc as set speller "aspell -x -c"
>
> However is it possible to set it from a shell script? I did a set speller
> "home/findmarbles/spellchecker.sh" in the nanorc.

You will want to have a leading slash too: "/home...".

> spellchecker.sh is a simple:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> aspell -x -c

Aspell needs an argument.  Pass it on with $1:

   aspell -x -c $1

(Also, make sure spellchecker.sh is executable.)


It is also possible to use the SPELL environment variable.  In that case,
make sure that _no_ nanorc file sets the speller command -- SPELL is a
fallback, it does not override a nanorc setting.  You can then simply do:

   export SPELL="aspell -x -c"


(Personally I always add the -l option plus a language code, to make sure
aspell checks the spelling for the correct language.)

Benno