Re: [aspell-devel] use of TAGS file for spellchecking in C mode

[Stefan Kost]

Hi Gary,
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:28 -0500, Gary Setter wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefan Kost" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:11 AM
> Subject: [aspell-devel] use of TAGS file for spellchecking in C
> mode
> 
> 
> > hi hi,
> >
> > at first thanks for the c comment spell-checking mode. Its a
> good start to get
> > better source documentation. On annoying thing is that aspell
> does not know
> > about symbol names and thus brings up a lot of false warnings
> when referencing
> > symbol names in doc-comments.
> > One idea would be to use a local TAGS file as an additional
> wordlist.
> > Unfortunately I neither found how to use a local wordlist, nor
> how such a
> > wordlist should look like. Can someone please point me to the
> right place. Then
> > I can write a simple perl-tool to convert the TAGS file into
> the appropriate
> > format for aspell.
> >
> > Ciao
> >    Stefan
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> The personal file is an ordinary text file. You can look at it,
> and create your own.
> What you're suggesting doesn't need to be a personal file. The
> personal file is suppose to be a writeable file which is managed
> as part of correcting a document.
> You could define your dictionary as a .multi file which lists
> some .rws files (compiled word lists). One of the .rws files
> would
> be the your compiled current tags file. See how the aspell
> utility program supports the create master file to see how to
> compile a word list.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> Gary
> 
unfortunately all this information is splatterned across the docs (I am
reading 
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/0.50-doc/man-html/index.html, never docs
are not 
online :-( ) My installed aspell-0.60.2 does not even has docs installed
(I am on gentoo and usually install docs).
My initial tests are not prommising either:

$ cat tags.wordlist
my_test_function

$ aspell --lang=en create master ./tags <tags.wordlist
Warning: The word "my_test_function" is invalid. The character '_' (U
+5F) may not appear in the middle of a word. Skipping word.
Segmentation fault

At first this dictionary does not really need a language, should imho be
"C" or "POSIX". Does anyone has done this at all or is this only
supposed to work, but has never actually been tried?

Stefan