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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Spell Checking built into KTextEdit?
From:       Hamish Rodda <meddie () yoyo ! its ! monash ! edu ! au>
Date:       2003-03-11 3:37:13
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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.
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