Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Janney Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Eclipse spell checker omissions Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:40:01 -0600 Organization: As little as possible Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2pr57xibe6.fsf@shell.xmission.com> References: <2ptyczln7x.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pei3zkhw1.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pvcx9igb2.fsf@shell.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dZdavj/jUDynNQgDq5jkeA"; logging-data="8649"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+u2e9DCACXz+80AKlHtKru" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5va+2ibqmM4h1OmPlDbhgkl+m7o= sha1:i5t8f8ah7jS81NPElmpxnBNZQ9k= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4221 Jim Janney writes: > jebblue writes: > >> On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:12:14 -0600, Jim Janney wrote: >> >>> Stanimir Stamenkov writes: >>> >>>> Thu, 12 May 2011 13:42:42 -0600, /Jim Janney/: >>>> >>>>> The default spell checker in Eclipse doesn't think plugin is a word. >>>>> OK, I can kind of see that. But it doesn't like registry either. >>>>> Hello? >>>> >>>> Just add the words to your user dictionary. >>> >>> Of course. I just found it amusing that Eclipse, well-known for its >>> registry-based plugin architecture, would flag these words as possible >>> misspellings. >> >> Plug-in is hyphenated. Plugin is not a word. Why is that surprising. > > One can argue whether it's a word, but it's definitely not a > misspelling: many things that are not words are also not misspellings. > And I didn't say surprising, only amusing, although I will plead guilty > to being easily amused at times. Now that I look carefully at the Eclipse documentation, I see they are consistent in spelling it plug-in. That's very different. Never mind :-) -- Jim Janney