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Finally! Automatic Inline Spell Checking is Implemented in Kile

Posted Fri, 05/07/2010 - 11:22 by aravind
Enabling the automatic spell checking feature in Kile

Finally! I updated my Fedora 12 OS with some KDE updates this week and to my relief I saw the much awaited spell checking feature/bug was fixed. Now my favorite LaTeX editor is capable of checking spelling automatically. Additionally it can also suggest spellings as you type. Take a look at the thumbnails.

This is a very simple feature that is available in any basic text editor but unfortunately it was not implemented in Kile until now. My previous two blog entries, Hallelujah! In-line spell checking added to Kate and Inline Spell Checking May Finally be Implemented in Kate (and Kile) were premature and it took more than an year after my last post to actually see it.

Well at least now it is there, right on time for me; I need to start writing my dissertation pretty soon and this will really help me. Thanks to Kile and Kate developers.

Inline Spell Checking May Finally be Implemented in Kate (and Kile)

Posted Thu, 02/05/2009 - 08:54 by aravind

My previous article titled "Hallelujah! In-line spell checking added to Kate" brought a lot of traffic to my site through google. This is one of the features that is non-existent in Kate and in Kile, which depends on Kate. I use Kile all the time and an inline spell checking feature would definitely make my life lot easier. On 2007-12-11 user FiNeX reported that "Spell check added on KDE4 version of kate." Unfortunately there have been a lot of issues (or confusion) with it since not may distro's ship the complete KDE4 platform and not all applications that depend on Kate have been ported completely to the KDE4 platform.