Re: [Pan-devel] pan, gtkspell, and specifying your language

[Charles Kerr]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:24:06PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote:
> I am the author GtkSpell.  GtkSpell 2 isn't very popular (I just wrote 
> it recently!) so I figure the Pan users are the people I should ask 
> about features.  :)

Hi Evan,

It's great to hear from you!  I was about to contact you this morning...

Newsgroups typically use a single language, so in Pan users set
default charsets on a per-newsgroup basis, and Pan could pass that
along to a gtkspell API if you like.

More urgently, though, I've also got a handful of crasher bug
reports that are best handled in gtkspell.   My (unrealistic?) wish
would be to have these fixes in 2.0.1, punting configurable languages
to 2.0.2 if necessary, in the next 7-10 days so that Pan 0.13.0 with
gtkspell can be released in time for bundling with the new RH and
Mandrake releases.

These are all GtkSpell-related crashes in Pan:
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89657
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89588
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88924
* http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/pipermail/pan-users/2002-July/001500.html


And, just to make certain it gets in the mailing list archives
before I forget about it, a low-priority request:

* When a user hits `rewrap text' to make it fit in 72/80 columns
  as per Usenet ettiquette, users have reported that the red
  spellcheck lines go away.  If gtkspell can know when the buffer's
  contents have changed, it would be nice to reapply the spellcheck
  for the entire changed region; otherwise, perhaps an API call so
  that Pan could tell it to update the region.

cheers,
Charles