Node: Notes on the Different Suggestion Modes, Previous: Notes on Typo-Analysis, Up: Notes on Various Options
In order to understand what these suggestion modes do, a basic understanding of how Aspell works is required. For that see Aspell Suggestion Strategy.
The suggestion modes are as follows.
ultra
except that it also performs
typo-analysis and uses replacement tables. The typo-analysis brings
words which are likely to be due to typos to the beginning of the
list. This mode should get around the same number of words that the
ultra
method does.
normal
.
fast
or
normal
are tailored more to strike a good balance between
typos and true misspellings. This mode never performs typo-analysis
and returns a huge number of words for the really bad spellers
who can't seem to get the spelling anything close to what it should
be. If the misspelled word looks anything like the correct spelling
it is bound to be found somewhere on the list of 100 or more
suggestions. This mode gets 98% of the words.
If jump tables were not used then the normal
option is
identical to fast
. And the slow
option is identical
to the normal
if jump tables were used.