[Aspell-user] Trouble with hexadecimal numbers and string escape characters

[Andrew Pennebaker]

I'm trying to use aspell to spell check my code comments, but aspell often
gets confused on some of the source code:

* hexadecimal literals - aspell treats random pieces of long hex numbers as
separate words
* string escape characters - aspell thinks that "\tan" contains the word
'tan', and "\no" contains the word 'no'.

Is there some way to change aspell's behavior slightly to accommodate spell
checking source code with fewer false positives for misspelled words?