> At 06:24 AM 10/22/99 +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> >On a related note, I was using AbiWord to write a real paper for the first
> >time today. I have always hated red squiggles, but I was actually
> >impressed with the productivity that they added for me. However, I hate
> >seeing red squiggles under names or words not in the dictionary. So I
> >decided that the ideal implementation for me would display squiggles and
> >let me middle-click on a word to flag it as "ignore". It sounds like
> >making the squiggles ignore ignored words will be done soon. I'd be
> >willing to implement a middle-click or modifier_key-click on a word (for
> >Win32 and BeOS?) to ignore it if someone who understands the mouse
> >handling of the text area could tell me where to start and if/when AbiWord
> >has a mechanism for making the squiggle code ignore words it doesn't know
> >on the command from the user.
>
> Uh, as of 0.7.6 we already have a working context menu for this. Have you
> tried right-clicking on those squiggles? It gives you four choices:
>
> - change to a specific suggestion
> - ignore all occurrences in this document
> - add to your custom dictionary
> - bring up the spelling dialog
>
This sounds like what I was looking for. I tried right clicking on words
but not squiggles. I'll try it when I get home