Hi
Is there a possibility to expand the uVision IDE with a spell check tool? Could anybody recommend shuch a tool? It would be helpful to check the right spelling of the comments ( Doxygen comments ).
Regards Raphael
Thanks for the feedback about the adding of external tools into the uVision IDE.
I am still interested how other user of uVision solve this issue, about spell check of comments. The prefered solution would be that the editor would do it, but unfortunately it doesn't. An other possibility could be an external tool, but I couldn't find one. And of course you can trust your english skills, which is hard if english isn't your mother language.
I expect most people let the editor - them - perform the spell checking.
In other words I have to thinks about using an other editor than the one of uVision!
"which is hard if english isn't your mother language."
It is a sad fact that many people for whom English is their mother tongue find this difficult!
:-(
For what it's worth, I never use uVision for editing, only for project management and builds. I use SlickEdit for editing and can invoke builds using uVision's command line interface. The output from the build is directed to a text file which SlickEdit can use to do error parsing. This allows me to click on an error in SlickEdit's build window and it will take me to the appropriate line in the source code. An editor like SlickEdit offers many features that uVision's editor doesn't, including spell checking.
Dear Walter
Using an external editor sounds like a good approuch. How did you solve the file navigation within the project files? Do you have to rebuild a kind of project file for SlickEdit or could you use the information of the uVision project file?
Hi Raphael,
For each of my uVision projects, I have a corresponding SlickEdit project which I create manually. Not much more than pointing to the source files and entering in the command to build using uVision. Takes about 2 minutes.
Walt
SlickEdit offers many features that uVision's editor doesn't, including spell checking
just curious: how does SlickEdit spell check comments only, I know that many of my variable names are not "spellcheckable", whereas my comments are.
Erik
If it knows how to identify comments for syntax colouring (which even uVision does), then limiting spell-checking to comments only should be trivial.
Many (most?) programmer's editors can also identify literal strings - so it ought to be possible to spell-check them, too!
Erik,
Andy is correct, Slickedit knows comment syntax for many programming languages.
The menu choices under spell check are: 1. Check from cursor 2. Check comments and strings 3. Check selection 4. Check word at cursor 5. Check files...
In the meantime I had a look to the following editors:
UltraEdit: Manual and "as you tape" spell check available but the "as you tape" spell check didn't work stable.
SlickEdit: Different manual spell check option but no support for "as you tape" spell check.
Eclipse (CDT): "As you tape" spell check available for comments.
I decided to use the eclipse (CDT) IDE for future projects.
Ragards Raphael
Make sure whatever spell-checker you decide on is capable of detecting grammatical errors rather than just misspelt words. e.g. I could only see one spelling error in your message:
ragards --> regards
but found two grammatical errors:
look to --> look at
didn't work stable --> wasn't stable
and a correctly spelt word in the wrong context:
as you tape --> as you type
P.S. Please accept these as constructive comments. I can be sure that my skills in your native language are nowhere near as proficient as your English skills ;-)
Make sure that whatever spell-checker you decide on is capable of detecting grammatical errors rather than just misspelt words. e.g. I could only see one spelling error in your message: