It would appear that on Jun 4, Charlie did say: > On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:56:53 -0400 > "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtw...@ttlc.net> wrote: > > > This is worse than those > > distracting squiggly underlines that some programs insist on putting > > under unrecognized words. I don't like those because they distract me > > from the natural flow of my writing. > > I may be able to help you with the above. > > Go to: > Tools --> Preferences --> Language settings --> Spellchecker > > and remove the "x" out of the <Spellcheck continuously> box > > I imagine you must have placed that "x" in as it was never a default in > my install on Debian testing. This "feature" was discussed on this list > and it was created so those who wanted it could have it, but was not > forced on everyone, thank heavens. > > Also having that feature on might have the spellcheck sidebar > constantly on your monitor. [shudder]
I double checked and that option wasn't checked. So I tried checking it and *saving the changes. No change in behavior. Then I set it back to unchecked and again *saves the changes. Still no change... <sigh> Thanks anyway! *NOTE: while I can ‘select’ the ‘save’ button in tools-preferences with ‘<alt>+S’ (it gets a little blue outline) but the preference dialog doesn't close and the button gives no visual reference of being pressed. Unlike the way ‘<alt>+A’ makes the Apply button get animated to appear momentarily depressed. (So if I want to save changes I'm once again stuck with the durned rodent.) If this isn't supposed to be forced on everybody, then maybe this is a problem with the binary in the PCLinuxOS repository???? I hope so because if the LyX in my other Linux installations starts acting like this I'm gonna cry for real... I've also notices another oddness. according to those Spellchecker preferences I do still have aspell selected as my spellchecker. but when (as I mentioned in my previous post) I couldn't get the spell checker to recognize “Avant-garde” as a word even after clicking on the add button I tested the add function with a repeated ridiculous spelling of “pulleese” And upon "adding the first instance by clicking on the add button the spell checker skipped the second. And when I returned to LyX on my PCLinuxOS installation to test the <Spellcheck continuously> checkbox I started the spell checker at the same place and it still skips over “pulleese”. Even though I opened ~/.aspell.en.pws with vim and searched for “pulleese” so I could delete it from the dictionary. But all it got me was: “E486: Pattern not found: pulleese” IF it's using aspell, ¿where else could it be hiding the added word? I wouldn't have added that silly thing if I didn't think I could remove it... -- | ^^^ ^^^ | <o> <o> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ___ <<jtw...@ttlc.net>> | ' `
