Overview

Hunspell4Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in, that integrates the Hunspell spelling tool as an Eclipse’s Spell Checking Service.

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 here.

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.

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Install

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 version 0.8.6

From :

• the Eclipse market place.
• the update site.

Dictionaries

Download Hunspell or Myspell dictionaries. Some URLs:

• http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Dictionaries

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 users

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

Linux users

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/

Setup (per workspace)

• 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://hunspell4eclipse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/com.lorands.hunspell4eclipse/html/help.html

Usage

Same as with any other Eclipse Spell Service.

Kudos

Kudos goes to:

• László Németh for creating Hunspell
• Flemming Frandsen for JNA Java bindings of Hunspell
• Eclipse and Jdt teams