Caprine: Implement spell checking

[fregante]

All apps on OS X can use the system's spellchecker, but it appears to be disabled in Caprine

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- #1336 Spellcheck with electron-context-menu update!

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[sindresorhus]

Follow-up issue → https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/3211

[dudeofawesome]

Has there been any progress on this?

I might try to tackle it using electron-spellchecker.

[sindresorhus]

@dudeofawesome No progress. A pull request would be lovely. I think it should be added to electron-context-menu though, as it's what Caprine uses for the context menu, and that way it would benefit many apps, not just Caprine.

[nahive]

Any progress on that? I'm using macOS text replacement keyboard feature and it's the only thing blocking me from using Caprine. I don't think that context menu will fix that - as it's an dynamic spell checking feature.

[akashnimare]

I have been using spellchecker for a while and it's pretty awesome. Works on all platforms.

[akashnimare]

@sindresorhus let me know if you're up for spellchecker.
Note - this module have default context menu options like - copy, paste etc so you gotta remove electron-context-menu to use it.

[archcorsair]

Looks like there's been no progress made on this. I will have a go at it using spellchecker

[sindresorhus]

@archcorsair Awesome :) Note: https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/issues/14#issuecomment-270554932

[archcorsair]

Here's the PR for spell checking support: https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/pull/246

[nahive]

Any progress on that? I'd love to use text replacements in caprine.

[fregante]

I don't think you'll ever be able to use text replacements, even Chrome doesn't support them (as a consequence of hacking the spellcheck support on instead implementing it fully.)

[archcorsair]

I have a personal branch that has spellchecker support fully implemented/functional. I haven't had the time to fully implement it into @sindresorhus's electon-context-menu. With his permission, I can post a link to my personal build (for those who really want spellcheck support asap in caprine) until we get the context-menu issue resolved.

[willashley23]

Can I get an update on where we are at with this? Seems like electron-spellchecker isn't an option, what other options do we have? I'd be down to give it a shot!

[Mattiaslndstrm]

I'm also very interested in this.

[thatchrismiller]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I swear that spellcheck was present until the last update. It showed up in the edit menu. Now, it's gone.

[willashley23]

Any update on the status of this?

[kecinzer]

I still can't see spellchecker. It's there any progress on it?

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[JoniVR]

I don't think you'll ever be able to use text replacements, even Chrome doesn't support them (as a consequence of hacking the spellcheck support on instead implementing it fully.)

You can use Alfred for this, it works in chrome (and thus Electron apps too)

[btrd]

Why electron-spellchecker isn't an option ?

I can give it a try if it's a good option

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[hazrpg]

Could this not be used as an option: https://www.npmjs.com/package/spellchecker

[alshdavid]

Just a quick note, I was experimenting and registered Grammarly as an extension. While it registered just fine, it seems there are some issues with Electron support.

[matthewknill]

Any progress on this? I'd very much like to have a spell checker in this app...

[CvX]

Coming to Electron 8.0! https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/20692 🎉

[sindresorhus]

See https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-context-menu/issues/11#issuecomment-582300971 and https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/pull/1267/files#r375122371.

[ncuben1775]

@sindresorhus @nautatva any progress on this?

[alekksander]

what's the issue state?

[myspivey]

Follow this PR for updates everyone https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-context-menu/pull/94

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[sindresorhus]

Released: https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/releases/tag/v2.46.0

[maxoku]

Would it be possible to combine dictionaries or only one language spell-checking at a time is possible?

[alekksander]

it's possible already – excluding mac os it seems, where it chooses one automatically. i don't know much about mac, but perhaps it's possible to navigate to Caprine/Preferences with file browser? if so, try editing this file and manually set it to something like

{"spellcheck":{"dictionaries":["pl","en-US"],"dictionary":""}}

where You write Your preferred language codes instead of ones in my example ("pl" "en-US")

[maxoku]

@alekksander
It works, thanks a lot 👍