GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 328900
Spell plugin must be ported to Enchant.
Last modified: 2019-03-23 20:54:43 UTC
I wish on the fly spell check for gedit. The good words should remain black, and the bad words should be red. This should happen on the fly, so when I enter a new word or modify existing one, the color should be changed immediately. Since coloring capability and spell check are already implemented, this should be easily possible. The usability enhancement versus the slow and cumbersome box is many thousand percents. Thanks, Eleonora Other information:
If you check the Autocheck Spelling in Tools menu, spell checking happens when typing. Though it underlines the worng word in red.
Thanks a lot. I tried it- excellent! Keep on writing such excellent tools. We can close the issue. Thanks Eleonora.
A question: I'd like to use hunspell instead of aspell with gedit, because hunspell can handle two-folded endings, and therefore more powerful for Hungarian. Also the dictionaries are more modern for hunspell. Hunspell is compatible with ispell, and therefore also with aspell. However, I do not know, how can I tell gedit to use hunspell instead of aspell. I could not find any menu item handling spell checker configuration. If I simply replace the aspell executable with hunspell, are there some caveats? What about the acc/dic files, it uses? Hunspell is the official Oo spell checker at the moment. If you have any idea about this, or any tips, please advise, Thanks, Eleonora
I really have no idea about hunspell... to be honest is the first time I hear about it. The spell plugin esplicitely links to aspell so I guess some code changes are needed to make it use hunspell. I am reopening the bug to track this posssible enanchement.
Spell plugin should definitively use Enchant. Changing summary.
then I guess we can mark this as dup of bug 316031. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316031 ***
Enchant supports hunspell, please see: http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/
Yes, that's why I closed this bug as duplicate of bug 316031: when the plugin will make use of enchant, hunspell will be automatically supported.
I assume, you will also enhance the gui allowing to select any of the supported spell checkers and languages. If it is iso far, I would be happy to test gedit with hunspell. Please enter then a comment into this issue, then I shall automatically be informed. Thanks, Eleonora