This initiates the spell checking program - a program designed to help the user catch and correct any spelling errors. Clicking on this entry will start the checker and bring up the speller dialog box through which the user can control the process. There are four settings lined up vertically in the center of the dialog with their corresponding labels just to the left. Starting at the top they are:
Here, the spell checker indicates the word currently under consideration. This happens when the checker encounters a word not in its dictionary - a file containing a list of correctly spelled words against which it compares each word in the editor.
If the checker has any similar words in its dictionary the first one will be listed here. The user can accept the suggestion, type in his or her own correction, or choose a different suggestion from the next box.
The checker may list here a number of possible replacements for the word under consideration. Clicking on any one of the suggestions will cause that word to be entered in the Replacement: box, above.
If you have installed multiple dictionaries, here you can select which dictionary/language should be used.
On the right side of the dialog box are 5 buttons that allow the user to control the spell check process. They are:
Pressing this button adds the word in the Misspelled Word: box to the checker's dictionary. This means that in the future the checker will always consider this word to be correctly spelled.
This button has the checker replace the word under consideration in the document with the word in the Replacement: box.
This button causes the checker to replace not only the current Unknown word: but to automatically make the same substitution for any other occurrences of this Misspelled Word: in the document.
Activating this button will have the checker move on without making any changes.
This button tells the checker to do nothing with the current Unknown word: and to pass over any other instances of the same word.
This only applies to the current spell check run. If the checker is run again later it will stop on this same word.
Three more buttons are located horizontally along the bottom of the spell check dialog. They are:
This invokes the KDE help system starting at the KWrite help pages (this document).
This button ends the spell check process, and returns to the document.
This button cancels the spell check process, all modifications are reverted, and you will return to your document.
This increases the paragraph's indentation by one step. The size of the step depends on the indentation settings.
This reduces the paragraph's indentation by one step. The size of the step depends on the indentation settings.
Not yet implemented
This adds one space to the beginning of the line where the text cursor is located or to the beginning of any selected lines.
This removes one space (if any exist) from the beginning of the line where the text cursor is located or from the beginning of any selected lines.