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Flagging words in a document that may not be spelled correctly.

In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone, capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application like the following:

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How do you spell check a website?

I know that spellcheckers are not perfect, but they become more useful as the amount of text you have increases in size. How can I spell check a site which has thousands of pages? Edit: Because of complicated server-side processing, the only way I…
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vim spell checking - comments only in LaTeX files

I use gvim to edit LaTex .tex file. I noticed that it checks spelling on the fly only for the commented text. If I have a mistake in a regular text - no underline. If I comment this text with % , the misspell is underlined immediately. What is…
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spellcheck=false on contentEditable elements

For normal input elements you can turn off the spell checking by using a HTML attribute (at least under FF). The same spellcheck="false" does not seem to work on a contentEditable element. Is there another solution for contentEditable elements?
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How to install a platform dictionary in Eclipse

For spell checking purpose I would like to install an addictional "platform dictionary" in my Eclipse IDE. You can see the list of platform dictionaries installed in Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Spelling, in the field…
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solr suggester not returning any results

I've followed the solr wiki article for suggester almost to the T here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Suggester. I have the following xml in my solrconfig.xml:
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How do spell checkers work?

I need to implement a spell checker in C. Basically, I need all the standard operations... I need to be able to spell check a block of text, make word suggestions and dynamically add new words to the index. I'd kind of like to write this myself, tho…
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.NET Spell Check control?

Are there any libraries out there (preferably a self contained Text Edit Control) for .NET that have Spell Check capabilities. I would like to add the typical red underline to miss-spelled words in the edit area of my application. Edit: To clarify,…
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javascript list of english words for a game

I'm making a simple JS game that needs a list of English dictionary words. Will I need to build the list myself, or is it possible to access the system's or browser's spell-check dictionary - or maybe there's another solution?
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How do I enable spell checking in Eclipse?

Is there any way to enable code spell checking in Eclipse? I misspell words fairly often. For example: void spllmstake() => void spellmistake()
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Trying to use the C# SpellCheck class

I am trying to use the SpellCheck class C# provides (in PresentationFramework.dll). But, I am experiencing problems when trying to bind the spelling to my textbox: SpellCheck.SetIsEnabled(txtWhatever, true); The problem is that my txtWhatever is of…
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How to add two-word patterns to be ignored by LanguageTool?

Situation: As a workaround for the not yet implemented feature to add a user dictionary of words to Languagetool, I came up with this code snippet: JLanguageTool langTool = new JLanguageTool(lang); langTool.activateDefaultPatternRules(); List…
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Python: check whether a word is spelled correctly

I'm looking for a an easy way to check whether a certain string is a correctly-spelled English word. For example, 'looked' would return True while 'hurrr' would return False. I don't need spelling suggestions or any spelling-correcting features.…
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emacs on mac os x, how to get spell check to work

I'm moving from Windows to Mac, and I've spent the whole night trying to get emacs to work. I've installed GNU emacs and simply copied over my Windows .emacs file, which seems to work ok, except for spell check. I installed cocoAspell and followed…
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Aspell Dictionary can't be opened

When I try to add a word or to ignore all, Aspell throws the error 'the file "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/en.pws" cannot be opened for writing'. Anyone know what is causing this problem and how to fix it?
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Emacs cannot find flyspell/ispell

On my Mac (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8), I'm using a modified version of Emacs 24.2 provided here to utilize Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from the downloads page. Emacs works, but I haven't yet been able to get a spell checker to work. To rectify this,…
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