Leafpad is the text editor for the LXDE desktop environment. It does well for editing basic text files, but it lacks a spellchecker. This is a hack to use the default-installed Hunspell to spell-check your text file. To accomplish this, you need to save the text file, open it in Hunspell, close Hunspell and re-open the document in Leafpad. This is accomplished by a script added to your .bashrc. I found this script in a recent Knoppix thread . Add this to .bashrc: lpad() { # uses leafpad to edit $1; on closing leafpad, # # # hunspell checks spelling; #on closing hunspell, leafpad shows corrected copy. leafpad $1; aspell $1; leafpad $1 & } NOTE: You can also use this with ispell, but you'll need to invoke "ispell -c". NOTE: I found the command line at the bottom of Hunspell to be misleading. For example, it says that pressing "I" is "Insert". It actually means "Accept the word, capitalized as it is in the file, and ...
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