Hunspell integration for Eclipse Spell Check Service
Hunspell4Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in, that integrates the Hunspell spelling tool as an Eclipse’s Spell Checking Service.
Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell
This plug-in is capable to spell checking with any Hunspell dictionary. Hunspell4Eclipse embeds NO dictionary
Today, this plug-in is fully fonctionnal but it remains in a beta stage, look at the complete documentation.
For detailed news, visit the News page.
Version 0.8.6 (11/06/2011) has been tested with Eclipse Helios (3.6 SR2) and Eclipse Indigo (3.7) using Java 1.6 on the following platforms:
- Mac OS X (10.6 - 64 bits),
- Ubuntu Linux (10.04 LTS and 11.04 - 64 bits)
- Windows XP SP3.
Please report success and failures.
ATTENTION : like we reorganized the features in the version 0.8.6 of the plug-in , it would be better if you uninstall the previous version before installing the new one.
Look at the market place page : http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/hunspell4eclipse-0
Download Hunspell or Myspell dictionaries.
Some URLs:
Unzip the content, so you get *.dic and *.aff files.
Usually if you use LibreOffice or OpenOffice with installed dictionaries, that will do too.
Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) embeds Hunspell for its native Spellchecking service, but the plug-in doesn't use the installed dictionaries.
Usually hunspell dictionaries lands at:
- /Library/Spelling
- /Users/xxxxxx/Library/Spelling
Note: if you add dictionaries in these folders, they appear in the list shown in the panel of the "text & language" preferences.
Linux users should install dictionaries from package.
For Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install hunspell-en-us
Usually hunspell dictionaries lands at: /usr/share/myspell/dict/
- Navigate to : Preferences - General - Editors > TextEditors - Spelling
- Select Hunspell4Eclipse
- Browse... and select a dictionary(*.dic) file
- Set the other parameters
- Done.
Look at the complete documentation here : http://www.cohorte-technologies.com/hunspell4eclipse/html/help.html
Same as with any other Eclipse Spell Service.
Kudos goes to:
- László Németh for creating Hunspell http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
- Flemming Frandsen for the JNA Java bindings of Hunspell http://dren.dk/hunspell.html
- Eclipse and Jdt teams http://eclipse.org