Bug 138529 - Spell-check as you type as in Kmail, Konqueror, Kopete or Gedit
Summary: Spell-check as you type as in Kmail, Konqueror, Kopete or Gedit
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33857
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: part (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2006-12-08 11:37 UTC by David Jander
Modified: 2008-12-26 14:26 UTC (History)
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Description David Jander 2006-12-08 11:37:01 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

There is spellcheck-as-you-type highlighting in kmail and konqueror. I love it.
But why isn't there any stand-alone text-editor for KDE which has this feature also?
A text-editor would IMHO be the first place to start implementing such functionality.
I know that there has been discussion about such functionality in kate and kwrite, and I understand that getting it right there is somway in conflict with how sysntax-highlighting is implemented plus the fact that kate is meant mostly for programming.
But, if you just want to edit human-readable text in whatever language, just as you do in an e-mail application like kmail or in this window I am typing in right now in konqueror, you definitly _DO_ want this feature. And it is perfectly ok as simple as it is implemented in konqueror and kmail.
Kedit is a _simple_ text editor, not specially meant for code-editing, and AFAIK doesn't do syntax highlighting (AFAIK it doesn't use katepart), so it's the perfect match for simple spellcheck-as-you-type. It should be fairly easy to implement, isn't it?
Now, if I wanted to upset you guys, and wanted you to tell me to "go use gnome instead", I'd probably tell you that gedit (the kedit equivalent) does have this feature, and that although I prefer KDE for a lot of reasons, I am forced to use gedit because of this only, but I don't, so I won't say it ;-)
And please (!!) don't just mark this as a duplicate of similar feature-requests for kate/kwrite, beacause it honestly isn't. It's a different application (Kedit)!

Keep up the excellent work! Long live KDE ;-)

Greetings,
Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-12-26 14:25:07 UTC
Wish moved to kate: kedit has been dropped on KDE4.
Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-12-26 14:26:21 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33857 ***