rospell is a UTF-8 text editor for programmers and general use. It features syntax highlighting, a code beautifier for C and C++, and support for gdb, ctags, grep, diff, and merge. It also includes spellers for English, French, German, Romanian and Spanish.

It requires QT library from Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), and it is supported on Linux, FreeBSD/PC-BSD, and Cygnus(Win32).

The project also releases Romanian spelling dictionaries for aspell, myspell/hunspell/(lib)enchant.

Features

• Free as in GPL.
• Simple dependencies (QT version 3.x).
• Supporting UTF-8, ISO8859-x and CP1250 (Windows) character sets.
• XML support - all xml-based formats such as OpenOffice, AbiWord, Scribus, and HTML are supported. XML tags are recognized and are not included in the spelling process.
• Romanian spelling dictionary with more than 1.5 million words. The dictionary is developed as part of this project. It is also released in aspell, myspell, and hunspell format.
• English, French, German and Spanish spelling support similar to OpenOffice.
• Embedded support for Romanian keyboard.
• Support for loading web pages directly in editor.
• Online dictionary support: dexonline.ro and Webster.
• Syntax highlighting - supporting a large number of programming formats, such as: xml, http, C/C++/Java/C#, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Python, Bash, qmake, LaTeX, etc.
• Multi-buffer/multi-window editing support.
• Ctags support for dynamic source code browsing.
• Grep, diff, file merge, and directory merge support.
• gdb - GNU debugger support
• Keyboard record/playback/aliases and other modern editing features.
• Extensive LaTeX support.
• Context help support for Standard C Library, POSIX standard header files and LaTeX help.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html for more information.

The word list used in all Romanian spelling dictionaries distributed here is released under Mozilla tri-license: GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1/MPL 1.1. Individual dictionaries match the license of the specific speller - aspell dictionaries are GPL, hunspell dictionaries are Mozilla tri-license, etc.

Development

Home page: rospell.sourceforge.net

Development page: sourceforge.net/projects/rospell

Authors, Change Log

Contact Us

Support: lconstantin at users dot sourceforge dot net or groups.google.com/group/rospell

Romanian support: www.gentoo.ro and www.linuxsoft.ro .