ST2 & 3, OSX: CheckBounce, a spell-check plugin

[phyllisstein]

I was starting to get a little frustrated by both the thing I was working on and the way Sublime was checking its spelling; out of the frustration came a VERY sketchy (release early, release often, I guess) interface to OS X's spell-check system. Benefits include a better-populated dictionary, stronger replacement suggestions, and detection of multiple languages. You can check it out at https://github.com/phyllisstein/CheckBounce.

As of 23 March, it's been backwards-ported to Sublime Text 2 and largely functions as a (surprisingly fast) background thread while you're working. Contextual menu items now allow you to learn, ignore, and get suggestions for words (by right-clicking on them). Aside from waiting for new region drawing methods to be implemented, it seems largely stable. Please do let me know if anything breaks, however.

[phyllisstein]

I've updated the Github repo; the package now runs the check in a background process, eliminating the need to do it manually, and allows words to be ignored and learned. Once the new region-drawing keys are implemented, it should prove itself to be a totally viable replacement for Sublime's built-in spell-checker.

[frou]

Nice project. I think exposing Ignore/ Learn is the biggest win.

[phyllisstein]

Nice project. I think exposing Ignore/ Learn is the biggest win.

Thanks! I think so, too, especially since it irritatingly picks up on LaTeX keywords as errors. However, there's also a handy dandy language-sensitive word count included now, which might rival the ignore/learn thing for usefulness.

In other news, it now has been tested under ST2 and ST3 and runs smoothly with both (after some backwards-porting).

[GerardLambert]

Hi,
I'm very interested by this plugin but I can not find it in the "package control : install packages" list ... so, stupid question : how can I install it ?

[phyllisstein]

Hi,
I'm very interested by this plugin but I can not find it in the "package control : install packages" list ... so, stupid question : how can I install it ?

You can either clone it from the Github repository into your Sublime packages directory or use the "↓ZIP" link to download it as a zip file. If you download the zip, be sure to rename the folder that's extracted from "CheckBounce-master" to "CheckBounce" before dropping it in with your packages.

[GerardLambert]

thanks for your answer ! I installed it and now I have probably other stupid questions
I have an unknown word and when I right click on it, I still have the suggestions for the default SpellCheking plus the classic "ignore XXXX" but I know also have three more options
"Ignore Word"
"Add Word to dictionnary"
"suggest corrections"

I click on "Add Word to dictionnay" (that is the main reason I want to try your package) but nothing happens : the word stay underlined .... Did I do something wrong ?
thanks

[GerardLambert]

up ?

[phyllisstein]

thanks for your answer ! I installed it and now I have probably other stupid questions
I have an unknown word and when I right click on it, I still have the suggestions for the default SpellCheking plus the classic "ignore XXXX" but I know also have three more options
"Ignore Word"
"Add Word to dictionnary"
"suggest corrections"

I click on "Add Word to dictionnay" (that is the main reason I want to try your package) but nothing happens : the word stay underlined .... Did I do something wrong ?
thanks

Hi there,
Sorry it took me a while to see this. In the last version, the underline stays there until you edit the document again. Just keep typing after you add a word to the dictionary and it should disappear from all over the file. (And everywhere else in OS X: "Learn" uses the global spelling dictionary, whereas "Ignore" is document- and session-specific.) I'm almost done with a new version that's much less of a resource hog and includes some nifty new features; hopefully I'll be able to fix that kludge as well.

[phyllisstein]

thanks for your answer ! I installed it and now I have probably other stupid questions
I have an unknown word and when I right click on it, I still have the suggestions for the default SpellCheking plus the classic "ignore XXXX" but I know also have three more options
"Ignore Word"
"Add Word to dictionnary"
"suggest corrections"

I click on "Add Word to dictionnay" (that is the main reason I want to try your package) but nothing happens : the word stay underlined .... Did I do something wrong ?
thanks

Just pushed to Github a new version that's faster, less of a resource hog, and able to refresh itself after a word is added or ignored so that the error disappears immediately. It's fully compatible with ST2 and ST3 as of the evening of April 5th.