SpellChecking

Spell Checking

Potato currently uses ASpell for spell checking. Currently, spell checking is available on demand via the Edit menu; there is no support for as-you-type spell checking (with the red squiggly underlines).

Installing ASpell

Windows

On Windows, you'll need to download and install both the Full Installer and the aspell-en.exe files from the ASpell Win32 webpage. After installing both, go to Options → Configure Program, select Misc Settings, and set the ASpell Executable option to the path to your aspell.exe - for me, the path was C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspell\bin\aspell.exe. After that, spell checking should be enabled in the Edit menu.

Linux and Mac OS X

You can either obtain ASpell from your OS's package manager, or download and compile it yourself from the ASpell website (full instructions are available on their site), then set the ASpell Executable option in Potato to the aspell executable as mentioned above.

If anyone has more detailed instructions for installed ASpell on these platforms, please let me know and I'll include them here.