Spellcheck is atrocious

borismus · 2021-10-21T03:50:39.612Z

insightfully
aspirational
intelligencia
densifying

These aren’t especially rare words, but missing from the spellcheck dictionary. Any plans for improving the system? Would be much better off to just use the system dictionary? Not the biggest deal, but it’s a source of annoyance, especially since I’m using the app so much, and for the most part enjoying it (thanks!)

WhiteNoise · 2021-10-21T12:28:06.095Z

the spellchecker won’t use the native one until this issue is fixed upstream

github.com/electron/electron

[Bug]: Renderer spellcheck API does not work on Windows

opened 11:50PM - 15 Apr 21 UTC

lishid

platform/windows bug

has-repro-gist 11-x-y 12-x-y

### Preflight Checklist - [X] I have read the [Contributing Guidelines](https:/…/github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for this project. - [X] I agree to follow the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) that this project adheres to. - [X] I have searched the [issue tracker](https://www.github.com/electron/electron/issues) for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success. ### Electron Version 12.0.4 ### What operating system are you using? Windows ### Operating System Version Windows 10 1909 ### What arch are you using? x64 ### Last Known Working Electron version None ### Expected Behavior Expecting `require('electron').webFrame.isWordMisspelled('testt')` to return `true`. ### Actual Behavior `require('electron').webFrame.isWordMisspelled('testt')` returns `false`. ### Testcase Gist URL https://gist.github.com/lishid/53782e6e43f4bc431ac1fed3bff33c85

or we move to a different editor.

borismus · 2021-10-22T16:47:07.629Z

You could probably special-case the broken Windows code path, but you know that already