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Bug 111265

Summary:	[correction][spell checking] Can't add words to spelling dictionary from read-only files
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Chris Ingham <chris.ingham>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	alain.pannetier, astubbs, chris.ingham, dlewis
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Chris Ingham

2005-09-30 17:14:03 EDT

I wanted to start using the Spelling feature, and started with a bare-bones 
dictionary file, figuring I could build it up by adding words that were 
flagged as misspelled.  I can't find a way to do this for read-only files, 
since Ctrl+1 asks me if I want to make the file writable.

It'd be really nice to have a Spelling submenu of either Edit or Source and 
the Context menu that would include an "add to dictionary" command - ideally 
this could be assigned to a shortcut key...

Comment 1 Chris Ingham

2006-04-26 13:28:49 EDT

This is actually a bigger issue than just spelling (although I haven't yet run into any other cases):

Any action that doesn't modify the file should be accessible in read-only files without getting the "Read-only File Encountered" message box.

Comment 2 David Lewis

2006-07-27 16:55:15 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> It'd be really nice to have a Spelling submenu of either Edit or Source and 
> the Context menu that would include an "add to dictionary" command - ideally 
> this could be assigned to a shortcut key...

I just wanted to add my "two bits" to say that this would be a very useful feature. To add words to the dictionary file, I current have to manually append the file, sort (and remove any duplicates), then relaunch Eclipse (as it does not recognize "on the fly" updates to the file). There must be a simpler way!

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2020-02-19 10:28:20 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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