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How to make it refresh the user-defined dictionary? [message #599945]

Wed, 04 November 2009 00:13

David M. Karr

Messages: 801
Registered: July 2009

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I'm editing a task description, and it's putting red squigglies under some technical terms, and giving me a tooltip saying the word is not spelled correctly.

I had already created a user-defined dictionary because of some code comments I had written before. That resolved the issue with my code comments.

I tried entering one of the words I had already had in my dictionary in to the task description, and it doesn't squiggle it.

As the context menu in t he task editor doesn't provide any way that I can see to add words to the user-defined dictionary (and I see no interface for this in the preferences area), I edited the dictionary from an external editor and added one of the new words that it's complaining about in the task description.

After I stored the file in the external editor, Eclipse didn't appear to notice the dictionary was changed. I tried doing various "refresh" operations, but nothing made any difference.

The only thing that worked was exiting Eclipse and restarting. I wish there was a better way to refresh the spellcheck.

I would file a bug, but I don't know if this is Mylyn-specific or not.

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Re: How to make it refresh the user-defined dictionary? [message #599949 is a reply to message #599945]

Wed, 04 November 2009 10:16

Steffen Pingel

Messages: 706
Registered: July 2009

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You can press Ctrl+1 to add unrecognized words to the dictionary.

Steffen

David M. Karr wrote:

> I'm editing a task description, and it's putting red squigglies under some
> technical terms, and giving me a tooltip saying the word is not spelled
> correctly.
>
> I had already created a user-defined dictionary because of some code
> comments I had written before. That resolved the issue with my code
> comments.
>
> I tried entering one of the words I had already had in my dictionary in to
> the task description, and it doesn't squiggle it.
>
> As the context menu in t he task editor doesn't provide any way that I can
> see to add words to the user-defined dictionary (and I see no interface
> for this in the preferences area), I edited the dictionary from an
> external editor and added one of the new words that it's complaining about
> in the task description.
>
> After I stored the file in the external editor, Eclipse didn't appear to
> notice the dictionary was changed. I tried doing various "refresh"
> operations, but nothing made any difference.
>
> The only thing that worked was exiting Eclipse and restarting. I wish
> there was a better way to refresh the spellcheck.
>
> I would file a bug, but I don't know if this is Mylyn-specific or not.

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Steffen Pingel
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