Add comment about pipe-mode, ^ and offset in documentation
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#38 Add comment about pipe-mode, ^ and offset in documentation
When using aspell in pipe-mode, I was a little suprised
to discover that prepending ^ to the lines, would
increase offsets with 1.
Example:
run: aspell -a
input: worgn spelling
output:
& worng 45 0: ...
input: ^worng spelling
output:
& worng 45 1: ...
It's probably not a good idea to change this now, since
app's "out there" must have adapted to this, but in the
documentation:
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Through-A-Pipe.html#Through%20A%20Pipe
it says: "It is recommended that programmatic
interfaces prefix every data line with an uparrow to
protect themselves against future changes in Aspell."
Here it would be nice with a note stating that this
means that all offsets is increased by one. I hadn't
figured this out, since the docs also states: "a line
starting with ^ has that character removed before it is
passed to the spell-checking code"
Best regards
Kasper
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This issue has moved to GitHub: https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/issues/277