[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: How do you make the user dictionary work?

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just upgraded to Eclipse 3.4 and thought I'd give spell checking 
> a go.  As quite a few words are missing from the dictionary, I'd like 
> to set up a user dictionary so I can add these words in.
>
> I've got a user-defined dictionary listed under Preferences | General 
> | Editors | Text Editors | Spelling, and this file exists (with one 
> word in it I added manually.)
>
> Whenever I press Ctrl+1 on a misspelled word and choose Add to 
> dictionary a message pops up saying "A user dictionary is needed to 
> add words.  Do you want to configure it now?"  If I click yes it opens 
> the window above with my user dictionary already entered in.
This sounds like a bug. Is there anything in the .log?

Dani
> I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but if I click "Browse" to 
> choose a different filename for the dictionary, the browse window 
> opens up with no folder selected - the list of files is just blank.  I 
> have to manually choose a directory to start browsing from.
>
> The filename is an absolute path: "/home/user/.eclipse/userdict"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam.