Spellcheck

[connorhatch]

Any plans to implement spellcheck?

[samuelmeuli]

That's a good idea. I'll look into this.

[samuelmeuli]

It looks like there isn't a straightforward way to implement spell checking in Electron apps right now. There's electron-spellchecker which unfortunately has lots of issues (broken language auto-detection, performance problems, and no clear way to turn it off) and seems to be unmaintained. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any better alternatives.

It probably makes sense to wait with this feature and keep an eye on electron/electron#3211.

[github2099]

Any news?

[samuelmeuli]

I've had another look at integrating electron-spellchecker into Mini Diary. There have been improvements, but I'm still not happy with its performance, language detection is broken, and including the library would increase the app size by 25 MB (!). The package also doesn't seem to be very actively maintained. Therefore, I'd rather not merge this into master.

If this feature is very important to someone, you could build the app yourself from the spell-checking branch branch.

And if anyone knows a better solution, I'd be happy to hear it! I'm also still hoping for built-in support for spell checking in Electron :)

[samuelmeuli]

Good news: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v8.0.0-beta.2

I'll look into this once the app is updated for Electron 8.

[samuelmeuli]

Native spellchecking will be available in the next release :)

[HeyVern]

I see that you added it in preferences....but how does one actually use Spell Check? Did it ever actually make it to the release?