Claws Mail Bugzilla – Bug 629
Spell checker more or less broken
Last modified: 2005-05-17 15:30:18
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Take any amount of text in a composing email. Select a section, then use F2 to spellcheck it. After you're finished, try typing. Words (from the dictionary, presumably) will appear in a certain (fixed, but seemingly random each time you try this) place in the text, replacing previous text, and keep changing as you type. I'm using GTK2 122.1, speller set to English, fast mode, no check while typing.
I confirm this bug, another way of making it happen (100% reproducible for me) is to have automatic spell checking, and click on a red word. After this you cannot insert characters normally: they are moved to the point you clicked on. Actually they even disappear if you keep on typing. This is specific to SC-gtk2. I am using a debian unstable with experimental package "sylpheed-claws-gtk2". sc: version 1.0.1cvs7.3 but the bug was already there with previous versions. GTK+ version 2.6.2 system : Linux 2.6.8-1-686 (i686) plugins: gdk-pixbuf IPv6 iconv compface OpenSSL GNU/aspell
*** Bug 731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any idea when this might be fixed? It still occurs in 1.9.9 and is causing me major headaches. If I right click on a word that is red, select the correct spelling and try to continue typing my email, claws puts the cursor back to the previously misspelled word and I cannot continue typing the email. Can I help in any way, i.e. from a claws user perspective? Alex
(In reply to comment #3) > If I right click on a word that is red, select the correct spelling and > try to continue typing my email, claws puts the cursor back to the > previously misspelled word and I cannot continue typing the email. Actually what happens is that keyboard shortcuts (A,B,C...) of the right click menu remain active once the menu is released. So if you type A, it replaces the red word by the first replacement, then if you type B, it replaces again the same word by the second. I think it is easy to fix (unless it is a gtk2 bug), but unfortunately I absolutely don't know anything about gtk programming. Hope that helps, it gives me headaches too (only reason I stay with sc-gtk1). P. > Can I help in any way, i.e. from a claws user perspective? > > Alex >
A problem with the keyboard shortcuts sounds like a good clue. I can do a build with debug information and provide information to a developer if that will help. I will need direction on what to provide. I switched a publicly available Solaris package from sc-gtk1 to sc-gtk2 without fully testing the gtk2 version. So I am being chastised and the site's overseer may pull my SylpheedClaws package for now. Due to the version numbers difference, I cannot go back and publish the gtk1 package. /A
It should work better on 1.9.9cvs4. Could you give a try and update the bug status? With a bit of luck it's completely fixed, but I guess there may be other problems...
I am not the originator of this bug report but I have tested with 1.9.9cvs10 and it works fine. I also asked another person having the same problem to do some testing and he also says that it works fine. Thanks for fixing this, Alex
Great. Let's mark it fixed, then :)