From kde-core-devel  Tue Mar 11 03:37:13 2003
From: Hamish Rodda <meddie () yoyo ! its ! monash ! edu ! au>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 03:37:13 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Spell Checking built into KTextEdit?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104735388919260

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:15, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> > Please, don't forget that QTextEdit can have associated only a single
> > QSyntaxHighlighter! Apps would need to subclass the spellchecker
> > highlighter to implement it's own syntax highlighting.
>
> Apps that want a text editor with syntax highlighting would be foolish to
> not be using  the KTextEditor interface, so that the user's chosen editor
> with highlighting is used (be it the KatePart of KVim or other) instead of
> forcing them to use some other editor.

Also of note is that I'm working on an arbitrary highlighting interface for 
kate / ktexteditor which should make it quite easy to implement similar 
spell-checking functionality.  When it's more ready I'll announce it for 
review, but if someone wants to try it you can ask me...

Cheers,
Hamish.