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In <1992Jul8.182057.14395@mlb.semi.harris.com> mwills@su102c (Scott Wills) writes:

>I've been using the following shell script, invoked from my
>~/.text_extras menu to interactively spell correct outgoing mailtool
>messages.  It seems to work pretty well.  Have other nifty solutions
>been devised?

I sort of made a little more generic solution... I just made a generic
filter support an let the argument be the interactive program to be
run.  For example, my ~/.text_extras_menu has the following line:

   "Ispell"           filter ispell

And the filter program looks like this:

   #!/bin/sh
   TEMP=/tmp/X_filter_file
   export TEMP
   cat > $TEMP
   shelltool $* $TEMP
   cat $TEMP

You may be wondering why I made TEMP a constant and did not remove
it (a good point).  Well, I had a problem that I am surprised that 
you haven't run into... the selected region will timeout after a few
seconds.  When this happens, the filtered region (in this case spell
corrected) is not replaced.  So I also added the following to my
.text_extras_menu:

   "Swap"        cat /tmp/X_filter_file

This does require that I reselect the region which is kind of a drag.
If you have avoided this problem, can you let me know what you did
differently than I.

BTW, having my filter program be generic seems to be a good idea, but
I have yet to find another good use for it besides ispell (and ispell
is pretty spiffy... thanks to whomever wrote it).
	
>Delete leading spaces from all of the above, and replace
>"/full/path/to/ispell-stdin" with where ever you put the script.

Oh, I didn't use the full path because my "filter" program is in
my path... perhaps the full path is a better idea.

						- Mark
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