Some tweaking in the highlichter class, and added the spelling suggestion context menu.

nw/gui/doceditor.py

@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ import enchant
 
 from time                import time
 
-from PyQt5.QtWidgets     import QTextEdit
-from PyQt5.QtCore        import Qt, QTimer
-from PyQt5.QtGui         import QTextCursor, QTextOption
+from PyQt5.QtWidgets     import QTextEdit, QAction, QMenu
+from PyQt5.QtCore        import Qt, QTimer, QEvent, pyqtSignal
+from PyQt5.QtGui         import QTextCursor, QTextOption, QMouseEvent
 
 from nw.gui.dochighlight import GuiDocHighlighter
 from nw.gui.wordcounter  import WordCounter
@@ -148,6 +148,56 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QTextEdit):
         QTextEdit.keyPressEvent(self, keyEvent)
         return
 
+    def mousePressEvent(self, theEvent):
+        """Capture right click events and rewrite them to left button event. This moves the cursor
+        to the location of the pointer. Needed to select the word under the right click.
+        Adapted from: https://nachtimwald.com/2009/08/22/qplaintextedit-with-in-line-spell-check
+        """
+        if theEvent.button() == Qt.RightButton:
+            theEvent = QMouseEvent(
+                QEvent.MouseButtonPress, theEvent.pos(), Qt.LeftButton, Qt.LeftButton, Qt.NoModifier
+            )
+        QTextEdit.mousePressEvent(self, theEvent)
+        return
+
+    def contextMenuEvent(self, theEvent):
+        """Intercept the context menu and insert spelling suggestions, if any.
+        Uses the custom QAction class SpellAction from the same example code.
+        Adapted from: https://nachtimwald.com/2009/08/22/qplaintextedit-with-in-line-spell-check
+        """
+        mnuSpell = self.createStandardContextMenu()
+        theCursor = self.textCursor()
+        theCursor.select(QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor)
+        self.setTextCursor(theCursor)
+
+        if self.textCursor().hasSelection():
+            theText = self.textCursor().selectedText()
+            if not self.theDict.check(theText):
+                mnuSuggest = QMenu("Spelling Suggestions")
+                for aWord in self.theDict.suggest(theText):
+                    action = SpellAction(aWord, mnuSuggest)
+                    action.correct.connect(self._correctWord)
+                    mnuSuggest.addAction(action)
+                if len(mnuSuggest.actions()) > 0:
+                    theActions = mnuSpell.actions()
+                    mnuSpell.insertSeparator(theActions[0])
+                    mnuSpell.insertMenu(theActions[0], mnuSuggest)
+
+        mnuSpell.exec_(theEvent.globalPos())
+        return
+
+    ##
+    #  Internal Functions
+    ##
+
+    def _correctWord(self, word):
+        theCursor = self.textCursor()
+        theCursor.beginEditBlock()
+        theCursor.removeSelectedText()
+        theCursor.insertText(word)
+        theCursor.endEditBlock()
+        return
+
     def _docChange(self, thePos, charsRemoved, charsAdded):
         self.lastEdit = time()
         if not self.wcTimer.isActive():
@@ -270,3 +320,11 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QTextEdit):
         return
 
 # END Class GuiDocEditor
+
+class SpellAction(QAction):
+    correct = pyqtSignal(str)
+    def __init__(self, *args):
+        QAction.__init__(self, *args)
+        self.triggered.connect(lambda x: self.correct.emit(self.text()))
+
+# END Class SpellAction

nw/gui/dochighlight.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 import logging
 import nw
 
-from PyQt5.QtCore import QRegularExpression, Qt
+from PyQt5.QtCore import QRegularExpression
 from PyQt5.QtGui  import QColor, QTextCharFormat, QFont, QSyntaxHighlighter
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -29,17 +29,17 @@ class GuiDocHighlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
         self.theDict  = theDict
         self.hRules   = []
 
-        self.colHead  = (  0,155,200,255)
-        self.colHeadH = (  0,105,135,255)
-        self.colEmph  = (200,120,  0,255)
-        self.colDialN = (200, 46,  0,255)
-        self.colDialD = (184,200,  0,255)
-        self.colDialS = (136,200,  0,255)
-        self.colComm  = (150,150,150,255)
-        self.colKey   = (200, 46,  0,255)
-        self.colVal   = (184,200,  0,255)
+        self.colHead  = QColor(  0,155,200)
+        self.colHeadH = QColor(  0,105,135)
+        self.colEmph  = QColor(200,120,  0)
+        self.colDialN = QColor(200, 46,  0)
+        self.colDialD = QColor(184,200,  0)
+        self.colDialS = QColor(136,200,  0)
+        self.colComm  = QColor(150,150,150)
+        self.colKey   = QColor(200, 46,  0)
+        self.colVal   = QColor(184,200,  0)
 
-        self.colSpell = QColor(200,46,0)
+        self.colSpell = QColor(200, 46,  0)
 
         self.hStyles = {
             "header1"   : self._makeFormat(self.colHead, "bold",1.8),
@@ -155,12 +155,7 @@ class GuiDocHighlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
         theFormat = QTextCharFormat()
 
         if fmtCol is not None:
-            theCol = QColor()
-            if isinstance(fmtCol,str):
-                theCol.setNamedColor(fmtCol)
-            else:
-                theCol.setRgb(*fmtCol)
-            theFormat.setForeground(theCol)
+            theFormat.setForeground(fmtCol)
 
         if fmtStyle is not None:
             if "bold" in fmtStyle: