Stop automatic spellchecking of domain names?

startling · General User Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 12

I have lists of domain names that are made almost illegible by the spellcheck red squiggly underline. I want to keep automatic spellchecking but not if it means I cannot read my domain name lists.

In Microsoft Word's spellcheck options you can choose "Ignore Internet and File addresses" which is very useful. I could not find anything similar in OpenOffice.

Is there a way to stop automatic spellchecking of domain names?

floris_v · Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:51 am Post subject:

You can assign a character style to domain names, like "domain name", and set the language for that style to "none". Interestingly, if I allow OOo to auto-convert typed urls into hyperlinks, it will not spell check it any more.
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startling · General User Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 12

Thanks for your reply, floris_v.

Do you mean I'd have to manually apply a style to each of the domain names? That would be too time consuming, I think.

Is it possible to use wildcards in the dictionaries? For example, could you add *.co.uk to the dictionary?

I cannot stand having domain names converted to links in any software - it's just too annoying when you try to select text but sometimes the software loads your browser and the url.

floris_v · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:24 am Post subject:

startling · General User Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 12

Thanks for your help floris_v, that's useful information.
I suppose I'll have to turn off spell checking completely, then (or use MS Word - something I do not want to do!).

floris_v · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:46 am Post subject:

There is a way to select all text that can be recognized as hyperlinks, using regular expressions.

Search for: (((news|http|ftp|https|file):\/\/|www\.)[a-zA-Z0-9_]+((\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)+)(([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.,@?^=%&:/~\+#]*[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\@?^=%&/~\+#])?))

EDIT: Then click Find all; close the Find dialog box, apply the character style for the selected text.
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startling · General User Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 12

Thanks! I'll try that

floris_v · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:09 am Post subject:

Filed an issue about it.
Recognized as a bug. Laughing

Please vote.
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