Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Daniel D Jones <ddjones@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail - solved
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:02:15
Message-Id: 200912261927.19884.ddjones@riddlemaster.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Spellcheck not working in Kmail by Daniel D Jones
1 On Thursday 24 December 2009 17:16:12 Daniel D Jones wrote:
2 > Options/Automatic Spellchecking is checked and the status line at the
3 > bottom of Composer shows "Spellcheck: on." Manually selecting
4 > Tools/Spelling shows the message "Spell check complete." But no mispelled
5 > words are marked, including nonsense strings like "lakjdfh."
6 >
7 > ispell is installed. I can go to a command line and run the ispell
8 > program, which allows you to manually enter words. Correctly spelled
9 > English words get a response of "OK." MIsspelled words get a response of
10 > "Not Found." That seems to indicate that ispell is installed, the English
11 > dictionary is installed, and all is functioning normally.
12 >
13 > Anyone have a clue why it's not working in Kmail Composer?
14 >
15
16 Enabling the "spell" euse flag and recompiling fixed the issue.
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