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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Shortcuts can be difficult, since the screen is not forced to keep focus. I will see what I can do about that. The same goes for the menu key. I never use it, so I need to see if that can be done. I guess it is possible.
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For me at least, something like you have in S&R would be more than OK for primary operations such as (F)ind next, (R)eplace, (I)gnore, (A)dd to dictionary etc - they
don't have to be Alt+key accelerators - I quite like your one finger quick-keys
But wherever possible use context menus via the Menu key.
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
It can be slow, but usually it is rather fast. It depends on the source of course. Getting the words is fast, checking if they are correctly spelled not so much. The Hunspell is much faster than the Word engine. The message about the clipboard is correct. The fastest way to retrieve all words is to actually copy all text to the clipboard and then split it into words. I can use a loop that asks Word for each word one by one, but then it will take about half an hour to get all words. This is the fastest way. I can clear the clipboard of course.
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All my testing so far has been on the one document of ~21.5K words, with a dozen or so 'spelling mistakes'. Building the word list is mostly quick, sub 2 seconds (with Word's AU, or Sigils GB dicts). But on a couple of occasions it just sits there with the progress widget displayed, no i/o or cpu usage, its not a 'Not Responding' condition, I can terminate the spell checker normally. However once it happens I have to exit Word, otherwise it just keeps happening. When I restart Word and open the same document the word list builds in the blink of an eye.
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
See above for the reason. As soon as you click on a word in the list, the selection should become the first occurence in the selected word. I will make sure the text is unselected first.
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Yes that part is fine, one word is selected when one is using the spell checker. But on
some occasions when I
exit the spell checker I have had the entire document selected - it's disconcerting, if the selection isn't dismissed one could hit the Del key and end up with an Empty document. I'm not sure if this is related to the 'wedge' condition - I think it could be.
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Wise or not, it is the responsibility of the user I guess.
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IMO that statement is inconsistent with having epub-tools ask the user to verify they really want to correct a spelling mistake on which they just clicked Replace - that seems a tad nanny-statist. You can add Dspell to the list of spell checkers that don't offer a minimise button on the equivalent dialogue.
BR