[Pan-users] Re: VDQ spellchecker

[Duncan]

Beartooth <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 20 Feb 2009
19:47:10 +0000:

>> Pan uses the gtk-spell, if support for it has been compiled in
>> (compile- time optional library dependency).  I imagine gedit probably
>> uses gtk- spell as well. gtk-spell in turn uses aspell.
> 
>       I didn't know that trick, and have been using it heavily. Many
> thanks to both!

My frustration is KDE!  It real-time checks spelling and underlines what 
it thinks is wrong, just like pan (with gtk-spell), but there's no way to 
correct just the one error.  One has to either hit the spellcheck button 
and go thru the entire kmail/konqueor/whatever message, complete with all 
the technical word "misspellings" it thinks it finds, or do it manually.  
There's no nice menu of possibly intended words to choose from.

What I usually end up doing, if it's not a word I know my mistake right 
away on, is selecting/copying it so my klipper popup pops up with choices 
to lookup the word with onelook, google, kdict, etc.  Usually I use kdict 
and if necessary use its sounds like match and go from there, tho 
sometimes google, with its "did you mean?" feature, is easier.  It works, 
but I'd sure like a popup menu of spelling alternatives like gtk-spell/
pan give me right of the bat.

KDE 4 may have gotten it better.  Unfortunately it's still not to where I 
can really use it yet, altho some of that now is that I'm simply not as 
familiar with it nor have I had time to customize it to work the way I 
do, to the degree I have with KDE 3, now 3.5.10, over the years.  But 
it's still lacking functionality/buggy, too, even at the 4.2 level.

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