Continuous Spellchecker Default Behavior (and Voting?)

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Sun Nov 1 22:18:16 UTC 2020


On 11/1/20 5:14 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> On 2/11/2020 10:54 am, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 11/1/20 12:47 PM, Joel Kulesza wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your consideration and good discussion on default
>>> continuous spellchecker behavior subsequent to
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg213704.html
>>> <https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg213704.html>.  
>>>
>>> I've created this separate thread to avoid continuing to hijack the
>>> other thread on dictionary inclusion and to ask whether it makes sense
>>> to call a vote similar to what Jürgen initiated
>>> here https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg212545.html
>>> <https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg212545.html>.
>>>
>>> The two options I imagine are (A) keep continuous spellchecking
>>> disabled by default or (B) make continuous spellchecking enabled by
>>> default (with appropriate supporting elements of preference
>>> propagation, etc.).
>> Just to re-emphasize: I'm happy to write the patch, which would include
>> some prefs2prefs that would keep (in effect) keep the default as OFF for
>> existing users.
>
> As a user I like this proposal. I make very little use of
> spellchecking and would prefer to leave my current preferences unchanged.
>
Me also. I think it's generally a good idea: If we change some default
preference, then do it in such a way that the previous 'default' is
copied over to the new version.

Riki


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