[Qt-creator] Spell checking in comments on Qt Creator

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:14 PM, ext Kasun Hewage wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I appreciate it very much if you could tell me a way to enable English
> spell checking on the Qt Creator. I found the following link while I
> was searching for such plugin.

I don't know of any.

> http://gitorious.org/+qt-developers/qt/qspellchecker

That repository is research into a spell checker Qt class.
When/if it was ready it would be possible to use it from Qt Creator code, to implement some sort of spell checking. Mind that spell checking comments has it's own challenges, first of all it needs to actually restrict spell checking to comments (possible but might be more than one line of code), and then cope with special comment syntax (doxygen/qdoc tags etc) either by doing something intelligent or by letting the user add the words to ignore manually.

With the external tools feature in the upcoming 2.2 release you can probably also pipe either selected text or a file through a external spell checker of your choice (e.g. aspell), no idea how well that would cope with comments embedded in code though.

Br, Eike

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