MacOS Spellcheck doesn't work

[avishaan]

• MacOS 10.15.4 (19E287):
• 1.8.4:

Current behavior

Incorrectly spell a word in a note. The OS spellcheck won't pick up the spelling error

Expected behavior

I expect the built-in MacOS spell check to continue to working. I know there is a thread about built in notable spell checking but I am just talking about the MacOS spell check that shows up in any text field

Side note: the normal mac text context menu doesn't work in general

[fabiospampinato]

I'm not sure we should spell-check inputs too 🤔

[avishaan]

I don't think we need to let macos spellcheck the inputs but we should be letting macos spellcheck the markdown field

[avishaan]

As an example, in any mac text field the built in macos spell checker will underline the incorrect spelling such as my screenshot below

however in notable this doesn't seem to be working when entering markdown

[avishaan]

here is a relevant github issue in the electron repo electron/electron#20692 and here is one of the original discussions about it electron/electron#3189 (make sure you read toward the bottom as it is a very old issue)

[fabiospampinato]

I don't think we need to let macos spellcheck the inputs but we should be letting macos spellcheck the markdown field

Let's track this in the main issue about spell checking then: #108

We can't just make macOS spell-check the editor, that's more like a webpage than an input really, and we need to sort of reimplement the spell checking anyway because the app needs to run in the browser too.