Hunspell4Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in, that integrates the Hunspell spelling tool as an Eclipse’s Spell Checking Service.

1. Hunspell4Eclipse
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2. The project
• Hunspell4Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in, that
integrates the Hunspell spelling tool as an
Eclipse’s Spell Checking Service.
• Created by Lóránd Somogyi ( hun)(lorand.somogyi at
)
gmail dot com
• http://code.google.com/p/hunspell4eclipse/
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3. Hunspell
• The spell checker of : LibreOffice, Firefox,
Thunderbird, Mac Os X, Google Chrome,...
• Can use Unicode UTF-8-encoded
dictionaries.
• http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
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4. Hunspell java binding
• by Flemming Frandsen (dk)(http://dren.dk/hunspell.html)
• Technology : JNA 3.2.7 OS/CPU
Linux
x86-32
Yes
x86-64
Yes
ppc-32
No
• Implementation tips :
Mac OsX
Windows
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
n/a
• native libs like resources,
• put in place in the temporary folder
• Win64 validation by Adam Singer (usa)
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5. Spelling service
• Package: org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.spelling
• ISpellingEngine
• check(document, regions, context, collector, monitor)
• SpellingContext
• Content-type
• ISpellingProblemCollector
• SpellingProblem
• Proposals ( CompletionProposal vs JDT WordCorrectionProposal ! )
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6. Preferences
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7. Result
• Lists of spelling problems ( not in JDT ! )
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8. I18n
• Hungarian,
• English,
• French,
• Serbian
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9. Known issue
• The Indigo installation fails ...
• IBM ICU dependency
• Lóránd is going to fix the problem, the
corrected version 0.8.6 isn’t too far...
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10. Roadmap
• Splitting of the tree of dependencies. The
specific spell checkers which have a
dependency to an editor (jdt, rest,...) are
isolated in specialized features (done in 0.8.6),
• List of dictionaries,
• User dictionary,
• Google proposals,
• Preferences by project and file
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11. Roadmap
• Splitting of the tree of dependencies. The
specific spell checkers which have a
dependency to an editor (jdt, rest,...) are
isolated in specialized features (done in 0.8.6),
• List of dictionaries,
• User dictionary,
• Google proposals,
• Preferences by project and file And we wait for your
requirements !
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12. Roadmap
• Splitting of the tree of dependencies. The
specific spell checkers which have a
dependency to an editor (jdt, rest,...) are
isolated in specialized features (done in 0.8.6),
• List of dictionaries,
• User dictionary,
• Google proposals,
• Preferences by project and file And we wait for your
requirements !
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13. Market place metrics
Month
Installs
Clickthroughs
6/11
21
32
5/11
16
11
4/11
14
21
3/11
12
31
Total
63 (rank 240)
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14. Merci
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