From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NNzV5-0007vJ-VY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:01:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45FB0E06D6 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mk-filter-2-a-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-filter-2-a-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.100.45]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB463E0549 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:36:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Trace: 314175485/mk-filter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2B/$b2b-THROTTLED-DYNAMIC/b2b-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/88.105.131.8/None/stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 88.105.131.8 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk X-SMTP-AUTH: X-Originating-Country: GB/UNITED KINGDOM X-MUA: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvMAAPqXM0tYaYMI/2dsb2JhbAAI1X2EMwQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,452,1257120000"; d="scan'208";a="314175485" Received: from 88-105-131-8.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO [192.168.1.93]) ([88.105.131.8]) by smtp.tiscali-business.co.uk with ESMTP; 25 Dec 2009 00:36:08 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail From: Stroller In-Reply-To: <200912241716.12874.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:36:08 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <200912241716.12874.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-Archives-Salt: 630e007a-85ed-4d53-a7e8-6562ab0deb57 X-Archives-Hash: 22d6d211f0f3cfc4e8e68403f4505398 On 24 Dec 2009, at 22:16, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the = bottom=20 > of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on." Manually selecting Tools/Spelling = shows=20 > the message "Spell check complete." But no mispelled words are = marked,=20 > including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh." It's been a long time since I used KDE / Kmail, at least since I did so = seriously. But I seem to recall there is an option in the preferences to = set the path to the spell-checker. This may be changes to = "/usr/bin/aspell", to ispell or whatever. I would not be surprised if = there is at least one other alternate spell-checker by now - maybe = ispell is no longer the default? This preference may be centralised in = the main KControl options panel, rather than in the Kmail-specific = options, assuming I am recalling its existence correctly. Stroller.=