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- Choosing an Editor
- Starting pico and Dabbling with It
- Saving in pico
- Cutting and Pasting Text Blocks in pico
- Checking Spelling in pico
- Getting Help in pico
- Exiting pico
- Starting vi and Dabbling with It
- Saving in vi
- Adding and Deleting Text in vi
- Importing Files into vi
- Searching and Replacing in vi
- Exiting vi
- Starting emacs and Dabbling with It
- Using emacs Menus to Spell-Check
- Saving in emacs
- Exiting emacs
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Checking Spelling in pico
Another handy thing you can do in pico is chek yoor speling, as shown in Figures 4.7 and 4.8.
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Figure 4.7 pico prompts you to correct the spelling of misspelled words.
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Figure 4.8 pico informs you when the procedure is complete.
To spell-check in pico:
pico hairyspiders
At the shell prompt, type pico and the filename of the file to edit.
Pressing these keys starts spell-checking the file. pico will stop at each misspelled word (Figure 4.7).
correctspelling
Type in the correct spelling for any words flagged as misspelled, or press
to accept the current spelling and move along to the next word.
TIPs
- You can press
to cancel spell-checking at any time. - Because the spell-checker in pico isn't full-featured, consider using an alternate spell-check program by specifying it on the command line, like pico -s ispell hairyspiders, so you can get a little more assistance. See Chapter 15 for more information.
- When the entire document has been spell-checked, pico will tell you that it's done checking spelling, and you can continue editing the file (Figure 4.8).