馃懡 gnuserland

@skyjake did you plan to add a spellchecking function, in the near future, to Lagrange (all versions) ?

Thanks,

tgl

2 years ago

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馃懡 gnuserland

@skyjake thanks! 路 2 years ago

馃懡 skyjake

plugins/extension so people can help you to add features

It is quite unlikely. I would like to keep Lagrange small and simple, and a plugin mechanism may require making things significantly more complicated.

However, there may be ways to do certain things via "transparent" extension methods, similar to the MIME hooks. It all hinges on how important the use cases are. Text input in particular may warrant adding some hook mechanisms that allow passing the entered text to some external tool for checking/conversion. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 skyjake

Lagrange on Android doesn't yet use native input UI widgets. When it does, custom and standard keyboards should both work as expected.

Personally I always disable spellcheckers, except on mobile... 路 2 years ago

馃懡 gnuserland

@tskaalgard I wrote all the time in two languages that aren't my natives one, and the spellchecker helps me a lot.

I am so used to read them that when those are mixed I go straight to the meaning without realizing that are two different idioms... 路 2 years ago

馃懡 gnuserland

@skyjake I switched on the Android default keyboard and you don't have any spellchecking function... Also this keyboard does not have any emojii support. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 gnuserland

@skyajke did you plan for the long term to add something like plugins/extension so people can help you to add features that actually you don't have time or desire to work on.

Something like, for instance, spellchecking integrations, emoji picker (I know that MacOS has this function but the majority of *nix don't), etc... 路 2 years ago

馃懡 gnuserland

On my android mobile, with AnyKeySoftware, an alternative keyboard, I can't get the spellchecking function. 路 2 years ago

馃懡 skyjake

I have no plans to integrate a spellchecker. This is one of those platform-specific features that would require many different backends.

Native text input controls may provide it, though, like on iOS. 路 2 years ago