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Why doesn the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc?

April 26, 2017checker Evolution interface KMail spell traditional user

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Why doesn the spell checker have a more traditional user interface, like KMail, Evolution etc?

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Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion ( through

, press also to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake — this is the “learn by mistake” feature), or hit to type a replacement, or hit to accept the word in the current message, or hit to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the “Alternate Dictionary”, you can switch to it by hitting .

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Because the developer (Melvin Hadasht) noted that by using the keyboard shortcuts the spell checking can be done faster while typing (more on that below). Moreover, there is the option allows to do a spell checking of the whole text or just a selection. Just keep an eye where the suggestions menu shows up to look at the misspelled word, then hit one of the letters corresponding to the suggestion ( through

, press also to make the selected suggestion listed as the first suggestion the next time you do exactly the same mistake — this is the “learn by mistake” feature), or hit to type a replacement, or hit to accept the word in the current message, or hit to accept the word and to add it definitively to your personal dictionary associated to this language. If you have enabled the “Alternate Dictionary”, you can switch to it by hitting . If you prefer checking while you type, just bind the