[Bug 35053] The usability of the spellchecker is poor

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35053

Affects: gedit (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
gedit always starts its spell checking from the beginning of the file
and does not allow you to skip backwards. If you are checking a document
with lot's of URLs and code there will often be stuff that you have to
'Ignore', but you may often 'Ignore' something by accident that you
should have corrected, and you ten cannot go back. If you cancel, you
have to start from the beginning again.

Thunderbird OTOH gets around this by letting you edit the original text while the spellcheck window is open. The problem could be alleviated by a) letting you change things
like in TB, b) letting you check backwards (like search does) or having spellcheck start from the cursor position and then wrap around.