codeblocks/codeblocks-devel: spell checker requires manual configuration

[kencu (Ken)]

Every time you boot up codeblocks or codeblocks-devel, it will ask you to configure the spellchecker with appropriate dictionaries. Apparently the downloadable bundle on Windows at least includes spellchecker files.

I am not an expert in how to set up dictionaries, but I stumbled through a method that seems to work and stops the dialog boxes. I'll put it here until such time as it can be automated.

I installed the US english dictionaries using the ones from the hunspell dictionary files:

sudo port install hunspell-en_US

there are no thesaurus files there, however.

I found a US english thesaurus file here:

​https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/th_en_US_v2.dat

but that needs an index generated for it. There is a port in MacPorts that can generate the index.

sudo port install mythes

and then once you've downloaded th_en_US_v2.dat I did this:

mv th_en_US_v2.dat th_en_US.dat
cat th_en_US.dat | /opt/local/bin/th_gen_idx.pl > th_en_US.idx

now you have all you need. I made a new folder

mkdir ~/codeblocks_dictionaries
cd ~/codeblocks_dictionaries
cp /opt/local/share/hunspell/en_US.* ./
cp th_en_US.dat ./
cp th_en_US.idx ./

and then set up the dialog box in CodeBlocks-devel found at Settings::Editor::SpellChecker to point to this folder, and it works.

NB: don't change the "bitmaps" folder in that dialog box... it needs to stay pointing at the default in the codeblocks tree.

Hopefully some better system might be found in future.

[kencu (Ken)]

another, more organized site for dictionaries and associated files is here:

​https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/english-dictionaries

There is a package for some versions of linux call myspell that uses these, eg:

​https://repology.org/project/myspell-en/versions

this looks like it has the makings of port that could be added to Macports to supply these dictionaries and thesaurus files in a simpler way.