Continuous Spellchecker Default Behavior (and Voting?)

[Andrew Parsloe]

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.

Andrew

>
> Let's see what kinds of responses we get and, if need be, we can have a
> vote.
>
> Riki
>
>
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