Spell checking in Descent (OT?)

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Mon Jul 28 11:32:23 PDT 2008


Reply to Robert,

> Peter C. Chapin Wrote:
> 
>> This is a question about Descent and so may be off topic here... if
>> so I apologize. Is there a more appropriate forum for Descent
>> questions?
>> 
>> I just installed Descent and so far it seems to be working fine.
>> However, in my current configuration I am seeing quite a few words
>> being highlighted as misspelled... for example words like "int" and
>> "writefln."
>> 
>> I can disable spell checking but I see that it is a global setting
>> (true?) and I don't necessarily want it disabled for my other (non-D)
>> projects. I notice that the configuration of the JDT has spell
>> checking enabled and yet words like "int" are not highlighted as
>> misspelled. In fact, in my Java code the only words I notice that are
>> marked as misspelled are in my comments... even program identifiers
>> such as "argCount" are not highlighted. Is the JDT just smarter about
>> this than Descent or am I missing something?
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
> Yeah, that setting could be a bit more intuitive... you need to go
> to Configuration> Editors > Spell Checking and set it to use the "D Spelling 
Engine".
> This is because spell checking is only supposed to be used in
> comments and string literals, and there needs to be a D-specific lexer
> to be able to identify where to check spelling.
> 

It would be nice if the spell checker could also spell check declarations 
(after splitting them based on camel-case)





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