Package: xchat Version: 2.6.8-0.3 Severity: normal The on-the-fly spellchecker tries too hard to find mispelled words, looking at the current word as it's being entered, and not doing a very good job. The result is that it's nearly useless, since instead of a red being out of the ordinary[1] and indicating a mispelling, it tends to indicate a word that you're in the middle of typing. So you tend to ignore them entirely.
Two fixes seem to be available: 1. Only look at a word after it's been fully typed. This would make it hard to spell-check the last word, since sentences on irc rarely end in punctuation. 2. When checking a partial word, such as "ide", look to see if it's the beginning of a valid word (such as "idea"), and don't mark it if so. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xchat depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.5-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.6-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.73-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libperl5.8 5.8.8-7 Shared Perl library ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsexy2 0.1.11-1 collection of additional GTK+ widg ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8e-4 SSL shared libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.28.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii python2.4 2.4.4-4 An interactive high-level object-o ii tcl8.4 8.4.12-1.1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8 ii xchat-common 2.6.8-0.3 Common files for X-Chat ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime xchat recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo [1] For small values of out of the ordinary; this being irc after all.
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