An eclectic selection of technology with some cookery
This page is looking at text editors of various operating systems and how to configure them to have spell checkers, white on black text (often called Dark mode) and change the font to something more friendly. This is aimed at those writing code & want spell checked comments.
The following text editors are
winget install Notepad++
Plugins -> Plugins Admin -> search “spell” -> tick “DSpellCheck -> Install
click Yes
Windows admin approval
Plugins -> DSpellCheck -> Settings -> Change Current Language -> Download Languages…
Tick the Language(s) of intrest
Install Selected
Plugins -> DSpellCheck -> Settings -> Change Current Language -> confirm its set to the required language
Settings -> Preferences -> Dark Mode -> Enable Dark mode
Settings -> Style Configurator… -> Global Styles -> Global override -> Enable global font
Set the font to your preference.
I started to look at setting up emacs with spell checkers and diffrent fonts and it’s quite involved and worthy of a separate page should I ever get around to doing it.
From the command line using homebrew
brew install –cask textmate
Uses the operating systems tool, to enable:
Edit -> Spelling > -> Check Spelling While Typing
uses Operating system preference by default
Change here:
View -> Font > -> Show Fonts
I’m focusing on iOS / iPad devices here as I don’t personally run any Android devices. See my thoughts on operating systems
Theme and spell checker default to the system standards unless you buy the pro version. I.E. Uses DarkMode if the device is set to that, uses the Operating system spell checker. Not aware of any ability to change the font although it is not a bad sans serif.
Technically it does lack file support for coding as it only appears to support mark down (.md) and text files (.txt). This site is mastered in mark down hence including it.
Very configurable but no real spellchecker support so a poor choice in my opinion.
Just Autocorrection when typing.
settings (cog ⚙️) -> Code Editor -> Keyboard-> Autocorrection
settings (cog ⚙️) -> Code Editor -> Font -> OpenDyslexicMono if installed
settings (cog ⚙️) -> UITheam -> Dark (or System if your phone is set to Dark)
Not an editor as such but includes a very good one so worthy of note. It’s actually a git client so if your editing code chances are it will be in a git repository. It has lots of formats it can keyword highlight and even preview files such as mark down. To my knowledge it lacks a spellchecker so is not currently a viable option.
In the editor, in the top right hand corner of the screen you will see the word “Plain text”, “C#”, “Hexadecimal”… tap this then “Font:”. Gives you the option import fonts.
Defaults to the system option, can be over ridden in the systems options if needed.