Spell checking does not correctly work

[itsols]

Binary package hint: gedit

I use GEdit for PHP development.
On a single page, I'm looking at html, php and javascript, along with plain text like headings, paragraphs, etc.

The problem is that When I enable Auto spell checking only what I DON'T WANT TO CHECK gets checked. For example, html meta tags, meta descriptions and css class names are highlighted with a wavy line. But the plain text within html body are NOT highlighted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gedit 2.30.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 27 15:16:42 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit

[Cyril (ravat)]

Hi

I found something. The file which determines php highlighting is /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/php.lang.

In this file, in line 321, '<context id="php" class="no-spell-check">' seems to mean that all the edited script is unchecked, unless if the no-spell-check class is disabled (ex : strings have 'class-disabled="no-spell-check"'). But what is outside php code is not detected, thus can't have any class.

I think (but I'm really not an expert) it would be better to only uncheck what is actually php code, ie to switch of the no-spell-check for 'php' in line 321, and to switch on in line 291 for 'php-blocks'.

I'm not sure it's enough, but it works as I expect here.

I explained it here : <http://blog.cyril-ravat.fr/post/2011/08/26/Gedit%2C-spell-check-and-PHP-syntax>.