Re: gtkspell

[HC Brugmans <hcbrugmans gmail com>]

Ole Laursen wrote:
> Martin Soto <soto informatik uni-kl de> writes:
>
>
> > Like you, I consider simplicity very valuable, but I cannot think of a
> > solution that doesn't require the user to explicitly specify the
> > language in some way. The good part is that when only one dictionary is
> > installed, you could hide language selection completely. And people
> > actually having to deal with more than one language probably won't mind
> > the extra complexity, anyway.
>
>
> There are a couple of Emacs Lisp packages for guessing the language
> used automatically which work surprisingly well. Keeping some
> information between session may help too - e.g., if you wrote your
> last message to someone in language X, chances are you will use
> language X next time too.
>
> With effective heuristics, it may not be necessary to reserve a
> prominement place in the UI for the language option - although it is
> probably still necessary somewhere.
>
> I found a couple of links:
>
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/AutoLangMode
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/GuessLang
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/GuessBufferLanguage
I have my doubts, but if you can make this work, thumbs up.
I'm a Dutch guy living in the Netherlands, but I'm doing a 
English-language education.
Result is that in Gaim for instance, I'm usually typing English to 
people that are school-related, while a majority of my other friends 
prefer Dutch.
E-mails related to Linux or school are English, family, friends and 
general correspondence are Dutch again.

I really won't be the only one in this sort of a situation.