This is a big deal for me too. I understand the technical limitation though. Any chance thereâs an API for it?
No need to be like that. Youâre using a service for free.
require('web-frame').setSpellCheckProvider("en-US", true, {
spellCheck: function(text) {
return !(require('spellchecker').isMisspelled(text));
}
});
If youâre using electron, thereâs this.
Thanks for being so positive.
Do you mind me asking where did you get the code snippet from?
If this feature is ever added, please add a keyboard shortcut to toggle spellcheck. Some technical documents will have a lot of notation that doesnât belong to any spoken language. One of my biggest gripes with workflowy is that my documents are scattered with little red underlines underneath anything detailed that I write.
Then Dynalist in its current incomplete form is surprisingly good for your use case!
Yep. Would be great to be able to spellcheck my work at the time of my choosing, though.
Of course! I got it from this merged github pull request:
Actually, this is a better solution and mentions some of the bugs associated with Electronâs spell check API (which you linked above).
Also can be fairly simple to add - depending on your codebase, of course.
Many thanks Erica, please let us know!!
Just to update everyone on this (the following is a bit technical) - the official electron-spellchecker has been un-maintained for over a year and no longer works. Most of the other ones derive from electron-spellchecker, such as mixmaxhq/electron-spell-check-provider.
The good news is that weâve been able to implement almost everything from scratch based on electron-spellcheckerâs code along with a lot of help from stackoverflow and electronâs official documentation.
We have everything working already, and weâre on our way to figure out how to deploy it to everybody.
Thanks to everybody for your patience! It will be rewarded very soon!
Thanks for adding spell checking to Desktop Apps last week (set keyboard shortcut to toggle on/off).
Will it be difficult to implement other languages?
You can change the language in 1.1.14+ now. Only one language can be checked at a time though.
So relieved to see this come through. As some others have stated, the desktop app was âfunctionlessâ for me without a spell check, and itâs been a pleasure to use it since this was added. One question:
I accidentally added a mispelled word to the dictionary and wanted to remove it, but it doesnât seem to be the Mac default dictionaryâŚso itâs somewhere else? Any suggestions on where this is stored?
I believe the file you want to look at is located at
~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary
Not sure if itâs a hidden folder though. I donât have an easily accessible mac right now to check.