Enable Spellcheck in Desktop App

[christianhans]

On iOS the Edit view supports spell check. Is it possible to enable Spell check in the Desktop app as well? After all the Edit view is probably just a simple TextArea?

[moughxyz]

I haven't found a way for Electron to enable spellcheck in an iframe.

[christianhans]

Does this help?

electron/electron#13514

[moughxyz]

Oo nice find! I was able to get that working for some of the editors, but not all of them. The two that didn't work were Advanced MD and Minimal MD. I'll have to play around with this a little more.

[christianhans]

Those don’t seem to support Spellcheck on iOS either.

[moughxyz]

Oh it might be CodeMirror based editors actually. Usually those behave in tandem.

[christianhans]

It seems like EasyMDE behind the Advanced Markdown Editor supports spell check according to its documentation. Can extensions check whether spell check in Standard Notes is enabled globally and then toggle Spellcheck within their component?

[moughxyz]

It does support its own spellcheck, but last we had this enabled it was a real troublemaker. I wish I remember what the exact reason was. But it might be worth revisiting.

[TheodoreChu]

I think as of v3.4, spellcheck for Markdown Basic is available on all platforms, but we can add spellcheck=true to the <textarea>