[IPython-dev] Spell check with the new modal input?

[mcburton]

Spellchecking with Codemirror is a big issue for other projects as well.
The Ghost blogging platform <https://ghost.org/> is wrestling with the same
issue. I believe their proposed solution is to implement their own editor.
I think someone has also brewed up a Chrome extension for Ghost that works
similar to the one Damián made (thanks Damián!).

Creating a new editor doesn't seem to make sense here and I'm pretty sure
the IPython team has their hands full without implementing a new code/text
editor (although it would be interesting to consider different editors for
different kinds of cells).

I have heard of some people building spellcheck into Codemirror using
typo.js <https://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js>. There is a Stackoverflow
thread about it
here<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12343922/codemirror-with-spell-checker>.
There are issues with typo.js (limited dictionaries, no unicode), which
have been discussed on
Github<https://github.com/marijnh/CodeMirror/issues/1017>.
So sadly it seems like there is no easy solution. :/ Classic case of
technical debt everyone must carry.

--
mcb


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes <
ocefpaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Damián,
>
> Nice extension!  Did not know about it.  I was using firefox+"It's all
> text" before to open the text cells into a text editor.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Filipe
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Damián Avila <damianavila at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The problems comes from the codemirror instance itself... in fact there
>> is no a "common" text area, so... your browser do not know how to
>> spellcheck something that did not exist as a text area (although it looks
>> like one).
>> It is no so difficult to do find an "optimal" solution with codemirror
>> layouts, but you need to know how to apply it, and you will also need a js
>> library which perform the spellcheck... so, because I wanted something
>> useful very quickly, I developed the extension I linked before... It is not
>> the best solution, I know, but I can spell check now  (in a "poor man" way
>> ;-))
>>
>>
>> 2014-01-28 Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com>
>>
>>  The new modal UI was a very targeted effort to fix/improve one part of
>>> the experience. Definitely not related to spellchecking in any way.
>>> Sorry.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hmm, I was hoping the new UI would have fixed this. I tend to avoid
>>> > the notebook because of this.
>>> >
>>> > Aaron Meurer
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Damián Avila <damianavila at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> There is no easy way to spellcheck codemirror instances, well...
>>> there is a
>>> >> way using a codemirror layout... but you have to deal with it...
>>> >>
>>> >> As a workaround, I develop an nbextension to spellcheck your cell
>>> content.
>>> >> You have the details here:
>>> >>
>>> http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/a-poor-man-spell-checker-for-the-ipython-notebook.html
>>> >>
>>> >> Hope it helps!
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> 2014-01-28 Toby Burnett <tburnett at myuw.net>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'm happily using the new modal input in 2.0-dev, very nice,
>>> especially as
>>> >>> my fingers get trained. J
>>> >>>
>>> >>> But I'm used to writing text with spell check, and wondered if there
>>> was a
>>> >>> way to get that. Chrome will do it, but only in a "text field" and a
>>> >>> markdown cell does not count, I guess.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --Toby Burnett
>>> >>>
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>>> >>
>>> >>
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