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Bug 15834

Summary:	[spell checking] Spell check for java comments
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Igor Fedulov <ifedulov>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	hauser
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	3.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Igor Fedulov

2002-05-12 18:23:07 EDT

It would be really awesome to be able to have a simple spell checker for the 
javadoc comments. Ss experience shows that some of programmers who have english 
as second language might benefit from such feature tremendously.

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2002-05-13 10:29:03 EDT

Moving to JDT/UI for comment.

Comment 2 Erich Gamma

2002-05-13 16:00:13 EDT

defer to after 2.0, but this would be great and excellent opportunity for an 
external contribution.

Comment 3 Dirk Baeumer

2002-07-23 13:39:50 EDT

[javadoc]

Comment 4 Dirk Baeumer

2002-09-02 09:23:57 EDT

Reopen for investigation

Comment 5 Ralf Hauser

2003-11-03 10:32:33 EST

was on the wishlist of others too!
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools/msg22333.html

or newer bugs along the same line:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35036
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36402

Since I can't find Genady's ideas from 16Nov2001, some thoughts from my side:
1) It should use an open source spellchecker such as aspell 
   (http://www.gnu.org/directory/aspell.html).
2) It should allow to remember ignored/accepted words on a per document basis
   Ken Stevens's ispell has the nice approach that in a specially crafted
   (non-javadoc for the purposes here) comment, both the language used on the
   document and such words are remembered
   (see: http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html, k.stevens@ieee.org)

Comment 6 Tom Dickens

2004-03-01 18:01:11 EST

A Spell Checker should be selectable for:
  - Javadoc Comments
  - Non-Javadoc Comments
  - Strings

Comment 7 Eric Rizzo

2004-07-01 14:23:04 EDT

Should this be closed now taht 3.0 has shipped with a spell check feature? Even
though it does not include a word list?

Comment 8 Dani Megert

2004-07-06 07:12:48 EDT

Has been implemented for 3.0.