Description Otavio Pereira 2006-07-20 09:04:31 EDT

Using the spellchecker shipped with 3.2, we noted that the number of squiggles had increased in our project compared to the ones reported from 3.1. Most of cases are resources names that get the file extensions highlighted ("gif" isn't part of our dictionary). The main thing we noticed is that in 3.1 the spell checker ignored words with dots, like "org.eclipse.spell", but now it's checking individual words (org, eclipse, spell). I really don't think this is a bad thing, I just would like to be able to have a new option to enable/disable the highlighting of "resource names", for instance.

Talking to some folks, we came out with an idea, not sure about the feasibility, but it would be really nice to have some "user defined" ignore patterns, like a way to enter a regular expression that is matched against the tokens returned by the editor. Note that I'm really not familiar with the spell checking internals and very little familiar with the editor's API.

If I sent this issue to the wrong component, don't be afraid to reject, but please point me to the right direction :)

Regards,
Otavio