Added some more comments and debug output

nw/gui/elements/doceditor.py

@@ -530,9 +530,12 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QTextEdit):
 
         theCursor = self.cursorForPosition(thePos)
         theCursor.select(QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor)
+
         theWord = theCursor.selectedText().strip().strip(self.nonWord)
         if theWord == "":
             return
+
+        logger.verbose("Looking up '%s' in the dictionary" % theWord)
         if self.theDict.checkWord(theWord):
             return
 

nw/gui/tools/dochighlight.py

@@ -201,12 +201,14 @@ class GuiDocHighlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
             }
         ))
 
-        # Build a QRegExp for each pattern and for the spell checker
+        # Build a QRegExp for each highlight pattern
         self.rxRules = []
         for regEx, regRules in self.hRules:
             hReg = QRegularExpression(regEx)
             hReg.setPatternOptions(QRegularExpression.UseUnicodePropertiesOption)
             self.rxRules.append((hReg, regRules))
+
+        # Build a QRegExp for spell checker
         self.spellRx = QRegularExpression(r"\b[^\s]+\b")
         self.spellRx.setPatternOptions(QRegularExpression.UseUnicodePropertiesOption)
 

nw/tools/spellcheck.py

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 import logging
 import nw
 
+from os import path
+
 from nw.constants import isoLanguage
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -75,6 +77,8 @@ class NWSpellCheck():
         self.PROJW = []
         if projectDict is not None:
             self.projectDict = projectDict
+            if not path.isfile(projectDict):
+                return
             try:
                 with open(projectDict,mode="r",encoding="utf-8") as wordsFile:
                     for theLine in wordsFile: