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

Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes ocefpaf at gmail.com
Wed Jan 29 05:27:34 EST 2014


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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