Spell Checking built into KTextEdit?

[Jason Keirstead]

On March 7, 2003 01:20 am, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 09:23, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> > On March 6, 2003 07:16 pm, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > > On Friday 07 March 2003 0:01, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> > > > If people are open to this idea I would volenteer to do the
> > > > coding for it, I already made a check as you type plugin for
> > > > Kopete whose need would be eliminated if this avenue was
> > > > persued.
>
> Scott: hi :)
>
> > > Don and I have kicked this around some.  Basically it's pretty
> > > easy once the highlighter class is ready to be moved to kdelibs.
> > > But it's not.  I've already added highlighting in KHTML text
> > > boxes to the feature plan.  This will be the means.  In fact we
> > > had a working prototype, it's just not ready to go in.
> >
> > Ah ok. I wasn't sure the development was being coordinated. Nice to
> > see though.
>
> Scott and I do both seem to be busy, so I'm grateful for help.
> Just this expression of interest is very helpful as it reminds me to
> finish this and shows that the feature is wanted, thanks.
>
> I do have a bit more work to do on the highlighter class. Basically
> this means changing the syntaxhighlighter constructor so that it
> takes arguments instead of having the syntaxhighlighter code read
> values from kmail's config file. (ie not very much work is left, I
> just haven't found the time to get to it).
>
> > One thing I have in my plugin that I miss in KMail is the ability
> > to right click on a misspelled word and get the list of possible
> > corrections. Any plans for this in the KTextEdit ?
>
> I think a lot of people (will) want this. Help would be nice,
> implementing this doesn't have to be difficult.

Anything you want to drop on my shoulders RE this, drop me a line.
Sooner this gets into kdelibs the better for me :)

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