[SOLVED] Not getting red underline for misspelled words

[ron_1]

I notice when using PM4L I'm not getting the red squiggly underline for misspelled words. I'm pretty sure my PM4L settings are the same as PM in Windows. Is this a Linux problem?

[Night Wing]

I get the red squiggly line under the word which is misspelled in "both" Windows Pale Moon and linux Pale Moon.

I use 32 bit Windows Pale Moon 25.3.1 in 64 bit Windows 7 and 64 bit linux Pale Moon 25.3.1 in 64 bit linux Mint 17 so the bit difference in Pale Moon between Windows and Mint does not matter with regards to the red squiggly line for misspelled words.

[x-15a2]

This thread will give you the info that you need: http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6850

[ron_1]

x-15a2 wrote:
This thread will give you the info that you need: http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6850

I added the string from the link, but I'm still not getting the underline on misspelled words. [When it didn't work, I closed and restarted PM, still didn't work.]

[x-15a2]

I added the string from the link,

It's an integer, not a string.

[ron_1]

Sorry, that's what I meant.

[x-15a2]

Sorry, that's all I've got, works for me and setting the various values work as advertised. Only other thing I can think of is verifying Options\Advanced\General - Check my spelling as I type.

[ron_1]

x-15a2 wrote:
Only other thing I can think of is verifying Options\Advanced\General - Check my spelling as I type.

It's checked. This is a head scratcher. I can't think of any other settings to verify.

Night Wing wrote:
I use . . . 64 bit linux Pale Moon 25.3.1 in 64 bit linux Mint 17 so the bit difference in Pale Moon between Windows and Mint does not matter with regards to the red squiggly line for misspelled words.

I'm using the exact same verisons of both Palemoon and Linux Mint (I'm on 17.1), both 64-bit. So this one is stumping me.

[ron_1]

I found the problem. I didn't have a dictionary downloaded. So I guess you have to manually download a dictionary for PM4Linux.

[SvenG]

I guess you have to manually download a dictionary for PM4Linux.

No, not really, Mint should have hunspell installed. Hunspell and Pale Moon use the same dictionary, the installer should have asked for that but you can easily do it manually. First remove the old dictionary if there is one
sudo rm -r /opt/palemoon/dictionaries
next symlink to the hunspell dictionary
sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell /opt/palemoon/dictionaries
So you always have the same dictionaries in almost all applications.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/p/pm4linux/wiki/ ... tallation/

[Night Wing]

I found the problem. I didn't have a dictionary downloaded. So I guess you have to manually download a dictionary for PM4Linux.

In my linux Mint, linux Pale Moon is "not" installed in either Mint 17 (Qiana) on my first desktop tower computer or in Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) which is on my second desktop tower computer. Since linux Pale Moon isn't installed, it works by "extract & execute".

I've never downloaded any dictionary for linux Pale Moon in my "extract & execute" setup and I still get the red squiggly line under any misspelled word.

Off-topic:
Even thought linux Pale Moon isn't installed in my different Mints, I used gui windows to make the Pale Moon launcher icon for the Mint panel taskbar in Mint 17 and (17.1).

[access2godzilla]

This thread is already marked as solved, however, things could be explained better in this way:

PM already ships with an en-US dictionary. This, however, gets removed when the installer finds hunspell dictionaries installed. Possibly the OP had hunspell installed at some point and has now removed it, so the dictionary doesn't work any more.

Just install hunspell dictionaries from your package manager and you should be fine.

[L Bell]

This issue is not solved. (as per me and the previous poster)

I followed the instructions (installed hunspell from the package manager in Linux) and am still not getting the squiggly line when text is mis-typed. Closed PM and re-ran it to make sure changes were freshly loaded.

Recently updated to PM 25.5 on Linux. (from 24.7.1)

EDIT: Am calling now calling with the Atom / WinXP PM 25.5, & the spelling notifier works fine under this.

Should I downgrade back to PM Linux 24.7.1, or has another solution been discovered?

We love PM for Linux 25.5, and don't want boot into Win unless necessary.

[SvenG]

Should I downgrade back to PM Linux 24.7.1 [...] ?

No, it's almost a year old and terribly outdated! So for whatever-you-believe-in's sake, don't do that.

First make sure that spell checking isn't just de-activated (context menu on any textarea).

Open your file manager and open the folder /opt/palemoon. There should a a folder called dictionaries. Is it there? If no, run
sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell /opt/palemoon/dictionaries
in your terminal (whatever your distro/desktop environment ships with), this will add hunspell dictionaries (assuming now, that you have hunspell installed) to Pale Moon.

If it is there, open it and see what is in it. Is it empty? If the answer is yes, run
sudo rm -r /opt/palemoon/dictionaries
in your terminal to remove the empty folder, followed by
sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell /opt/palemoon/dictionaries

If you did either of the above you should have a folder called dictionaries (actually, this is just a link to another folder but it appears like a folder) that contains files such as en_US.dic or for example de_DE.dic if you have a German language pack installed.

As an alternative to hunspell you can also install one of the dictionaries from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/. But you can choose only one of these methods.

If still something is odd, type about:config in your address bar and search layout.spellcheckDefault, this should be 1 (or 2), if it is 0 spell checking is deactivated.

[L Bell]

SvenG,

Many thanks for your comprehensive answer!

(semi-off topic) At this moment, I'm running Linux, but am running PM 25.5 Atom/WinXP under that compatibility layer called Wine! Of course, the spell check works as it does under Win.

I will not downgrade back to PM Linux 24.7, and will follow your other directions. Already updated hunspell, but it is possible that it didn't 'take', or something.

So, I will execute the 'sudo' commands in the terminal/console and examine the related folders. Am sure it will fix this issue.

I'm wondering why the author of Tahrpup 6.0.2 (author of original Puppy Linux) would use an older version of PM Linux in his recent distribution? (I think it was just a couple of months ago).

Spell checking is active (1) in about:config, but will try "2" before re-downloading hunspell.

Again, thanks for the detailed suggestions! LB

[L Bell]

Open your file manager and open the folder /opt/palemoon. There should a a folder called dictionaries. Is it there?

Yes, it is there and contains three files:

en_MED.dic, en_US.aff, and en_US.dic

The en_US.dic is 686,462 bytes in length.

The layout.spellcheckDefault in about:config is set to '1'. I tried '2' but haven't seen any results yet.

I will reboot Linux and see if it makes a difference. Thanks for the help!

[L Bell]

SOLVED (again!)

After trying everything and still having no 'squiggly underline', I took SvegG's alternate advice, and got a dictionary from the addons.mozilla.org/firefox site,

Actually, I installed, and then removed an add-on named United States English Spellchecker. I believe it re-ticked the 'Check Spelling' option that comes up with a right click.

Can't guarantee I will use good grammar, but the wrong words should be spelled right! ; )