Which spell checker does gedit use?

Question

People claim different things(such as aspell, enchant, etc.) on different web pages.

However, as far as I can see, it uses hunspell.

Does anyone have solid knowledge on this?

Answer 1

Without aspell being installed there was not even a "language set" dictionary available to me! In fact, none of the auto spell check was working for the Gnome interface desktop. However, by a simple and quick installation of aspell then everything was working on my laptop. My desktop had always been working for all this so I thought I just had something wrong with my laptop installation. I have Ubuntu 10.10 running on both.

This is a very easy and quick fix if you know about it! Thanks

Answer 2

From a gedit developper on the gedit mailing list:

We don't use aspell directly, but use 'enchant' which is a kind of frontend for multiple spell checker dictionaries.

See the discussion online: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gedit-list/2010-April/msg00023.html