Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Eclipse spell checker omissions Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:53:17 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <2ptyczln7x.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pei3zkhw1.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pvcx9igb2.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pr57xibe6.fsf@shell.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net vGs4f2SSGzivV3uYi7HMcwIgDjxVTJIDx2mEEnmuzGa2jJMbWwnQzqQfgt32BpRZ6OWCHnAOC7u0WDSfQ1f6h5HRJapVbqWXH7jDoTE7grBRj7xnGRo08T+f3VVJzQwy NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:53:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="y3D4PetiY76/VtBn5/KdByLUY7XeeG61jNuHWjdvvIZ7ECawNtqdwinS53LRvlHoW13ib5ZbNHjixrQJYBw8NPhZUIqz/jQW1R65C0O4A3fgLFgEFtg73BBHS5+1qY6l"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <2pr57xibe6.fsf@shell.xmission.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:oW8jrU7Pj14xu+W4RZtEu24h2C8= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4222 On 05/17/2011 11:40 AM, Jim Janney wrote: > 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 :-) "Plugin" exists in the wild, and is documented by some as an alternate spelling. Within a couple of years, I predict, it will be widely accepted, just as "resume" is for "résumé" today, and for the same reason. Loss of the hyphen to become a true compound word is an historically frequent occurrence. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg