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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 does one disable spellcheck on input type=text?

I'd like to disable the spellcheck on my textfields so as not to have any ugly red squigglies. I understand others have asked this same question, but they always make the answer of putting spellcheck=false as accepted. That is…
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Creating a "spell check" that checks against a database with a reasonable runtime

I'm not asking about implementing the spell check algorithm itself. I have a database that contains hundreds of thousands of records. What I am looking to do is checking a user input against a certain column in a table for all these records and…
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How to turn off red underlines in comments in Netbeans?

There is a similar question : "Netbeans - Turn off - wavy red underlines - How?" But It's for earlier version, doesn't apply any more. I still want error to be underlined, just not in the comments, it's now underlined something like : "buffersize"
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Enable Xcode's "Check Spelling While Typing" Option by Default

Is there any way to enable Xcode's Check Spelling While Typing option on every Xcode project and file by default? Currently, I have to set this option on each file, and the option gets reset after closing Xcode. Option in question…
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Sublime Text - spell check but only certain file extensions

There's no point of enabling spell check for your html/js/css/c/php/py/etc files, but it can be very useful when you are writing in Markdown. How to enable spell check only for only certain file extensions?
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Chrome: Automatically detect language for spell checking

I use English and German interchangeably when I'm on the net with Chrome. I really like the spell-checking functionality but find it a bit annoying that I always have to switch manually between the languages for spell checking. Does anyone know a…
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How to disable spelling corrections programmatically in Android

How can I disable spelling corrections in an EditText's soft-keyboard programmatically in Android? The user can disable it from settings, but I need to disable it in my application. Is there any way to do this?
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How to correct the user input (Kind of google "did you mean?")

I have the following requirement: - I have many (say 1 million) values (names). The user will type a search string. I don't expect the user to spell the names correctly. So, I want to make kind of Google "Did you mean". This will list all the…
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How can I enable spell checker in google colab (colab operates on linux OS)?

Can we enable spell checker for markdown cells in google colab in any way? Please help.
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Linux tool to check spelling of comments in c/c++ source code

What software do you suggest to check spelling of comments contained in c/c++ source code (especially doxygen comments)? I'm looking something that will parse only comments so I can easily find mistakes and correct them. The question is general but…
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How to disable Chrome spell check on INPUT with HTML or jQuery code?

I have an input in an HTML page I would like to switch this off with something like autospellcheck="off". Is there a…
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Visual Studio 2013 spell checker

I have dyslexia and am starting my first collaborative project with other students using the IDE Visual Studio 2013. I fear that my miss spellings may cause errors and annoyance to the rest of the team, so I wish to keep my spelling mistakes to a…
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ASPNetSpell Spell Checker integrated with CKEditor 3 doesn't work with Chrome

I've been working to integrate ASPNetSpell's spell checker (http://www.aspnetspell.com/) into CKEditor (http://ckeditor.com/). I'm seeing some unsettling behavior between IE 8+, FireFox 12 and Chrome 18.0.1025.152m. The short of it seems to be that…
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Spell check of comments in C++ code with emacs

Is there a way to make a spell check of comments in C++ codes using emacs?
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Exclude files from Android Studio lint spell checker

The Android Studio lint spell checker flags hex codes that look to it like words in certain files that would be better off unchecked, such as values/colors.xml and build/intermediates/dex-cache/cache.xml. How do I tell lint to not spell check…
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