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Author Topic: No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?  (Read 13405 times)

mouser

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No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?
« on: July 11, 2005, 01:55 PM »
i don't know why i never wanted to do this before -
but you can imagine my surprise when i was editing a text file and found that i couldn't find a way to have UE do red underlining of  misspelled words in a text file.

that really sucks - i'm very much missing this feature :(

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Re: No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2005, 05:58 PM »
That would be a cool feature.  Don't hold your breath, though.  It looks to me like IDM (the authors of UltraEdit) have done what Poco Systems did--they're overextending themselves and devoting all their time on a big, new project, while the "good enough" but longstanding bread-winner product gets ignored.

I'm still waiting for them to make the damned toolbars lockable.  Every time I accidentally displace my tab bar, I want to uninstall the thing.
« Next Edit: Tomorrow at 12:13:47 AM by Scott »

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Re: No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2005, 06:00 PM »
scott i think you nailed it exactly.

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Re: No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2007, 11:40 PM »
you can imagine my surprise when i was editing a text file and found that i couldn't find a way to have UE do red underlining of misspelled words in a text file.

that really sucks - i'm very much missing this feature

That would be a cool feature.  Don't hold your breath, though.

No need to hold your breath.  Ultra-Edit 13 is here with: spellcheck-while-you-type capability, red underscored misspellings, improved regex support in find/replace, improved hex mode that reflects true unicode encodings (prior versions of UE displayed UTF-8 files as UTF-16 in hex mode which was really confusing...Hex mode showed a UTF-16 BOM and two-byte characters when the actual file on the hard disk had a UTF-8 BOM and single-byte characters).

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Re: No option to underline misspelled words in UltraEdit?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2007, 11:44 PM »
yep -- this was a wonderful fix.
ps. i cant help but think our review, which IDM read with care, helped inspire them to add this feature that i complained about it missing  8)