Don't spellcheck outside of strings [$125]

[Danielle Foré]

If the spellcheck plugin is enabled, it shouldn't check outside of strings.

If that's not possible, we should automatically turn off spellchecking when we know we're editing a code file

[Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g)]

it is not possible to tell spell checker to check only in strings.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

I'm pretty sure Gedit does this. I recall it advertising spell check only in comments, but strings are probably supported too.

This might be it: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/commit/?h=gnome-3-8&id=412ef504a4d00b046fbb62501f6baa6da5ed2099

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

A branch to only check spelling in non-source-code files was merged, so this bug is partially solved. The remaining part is a wishlist item, thus I'm untargeting it from Isis beta milestones.

[meese (meese)]

Gedits approach to this is to just include a modified version of GTK Spell. Would this be an acceptable solution for scratch? And possibly convert it to Vala too?

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

This bug has a bounty on it: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1423137-don-t-spellcheck-outside-of-strings

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

Hey guys,

IDEs like the ones from JetBrains (IntelliJ etc) do spell checking in code as well, this is to ensure that for example, you don't make a typo in a variable or function name.

I would say this is not a bug.

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

I think I get what the purpose of the issue is, though. I was mistaken.

I guess a separate issue needs to be opened to somehow make it work better with variable and function names (ie. know how to decompose camelCaseVariables and underscore_variables and how to report back spelling issues). And it would only care about definitions, not usages, because you only care of a misspelling when you define something.