<div dir="ltr">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). <div>
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 ;-))</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-01-28 Brian Granger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellisonbg@gmail.com" target="_blank">ellisonbg@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The new modal UI was a very targeted effort to fix/improve one part of<br>
the experience. Definitely not related to spellchecking in any way.<br>
Sorry.<br>
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Brian<br>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Aaron Meurer <<a href="mailto:asmeurer@gmail.com">asmeurer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hmm, I was hoping the new UI would have fixed this. I tend to avoid<br>
> the notebook because of this.<br>
><br>
> Aaron Meurer<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Damián Avila <<a href="mailto:damianavila@gmail.com">damianavila@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> There is no easy way to spellcheck codemirror instances, well... there is a<br>
>> way using a codemirror layout... but you have to deal with it...<br>
>><br>
>> As a workaround, I develop an nbextension to spellcheck your cell content.<br>
>> You have the details here:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/a-poor-man-spell-checker-for-the-ipython-notebook.html" target="_blank">http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/a-poor-man-spell-checker-for-the-ipython-notebook.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> Hope it helps!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> 2014-01-28 Toby Burnett <<a href="mailto:tburnett@myuw.net">tburnett@myuw.net</a>><br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm happily using the new modal input in 2.0-dev, very nice, especially as<br>
>>> my fingers get trained. J<br>
>>><br>
>>> But I'm used to writing text with spell check, and wondered if there was a<br>
>>> way to get that. Chrome will do it, but only in a "text field" and a<br>
>>> markdown cell does not count, I guess.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> --Toby Burnett<br>
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