Comments on: Random Ubuntu tip of the day—Spell check everywhere http://simulacra.in/2007/11/random-ubuntu-tip-of-the-day-spell-check-everywhere/ Confusing fact and fiction, since 2006. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Luke http://simulacra.in/2007/11/random-ubuntu-tip-of-the-day-spell-check-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-3091 Luke Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:01:08 +0000 http://simulacra.in/2007/11/random-ubuntu-tip-of-the-day-spell-check-everywhere/#comment-3091 I tried this and the script didn't behave the way that I expected. I loved the idea thought so I made some changes. Instead of using xclip I used xsel. I found that by using xsel I could get the output from the spell checker to properly be put in the clipboard. I wasn't able to access where xclip was putting the final result with ctrl-v in applications. This was a problem since I wanted to quickly paste the correct spelling back into the application where I was working. Here is what I did. #!/usr/bin/env bash # Copy clipboard contents to a temp file xsel -ob > /tmp/spell.tmp # Run aspell on that file aspell check /tmp/spell.tmp # Copy the results back to the clipboard cat /tmp/spell.tmp | xsel -ib exit I tried this and the script didn't behave the way that I expected. I loved the idea thought so I made some changes. Instead of using xclip I used xsel. I found that by using xsel I could get the output from the spell checker to properly be put in the clipboard. I wasn't able to access where xclip was putting the final result with ctrl-v in applications. This was a problem since I wanted to quickly paste the correct spelling back into the application where I was working. Here is what I did.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copy clipboard contents to a temp file
xsel -ob > /tmp/spell.tmp
# Run aspell on that file
aspell check /tmp/spell.tmp
# Copy the results back to the clipboard
cat /tmp/spell.tmp | xsel -ib
exit

]]> By: Amit http://simulacra.in/2007/11/random-ubuntu-tip-of-the-day-spell-check-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-2882 Amit Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:16:36 +0000 http://simulacra.in/2007/11/random-ubuntu-tip-of-the-day-spell-check-everywhere/#comment-2882 wow...I am gonna try this one out soon..before that I also need to get the spell check working on my open office :-( wow…I am gonna try this one out soon..before that I also need to get the spell check working on my open office :-(

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