I’m using Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) with CDT 5 on Windows.
When the integrated spell checker doesn’t know some word, it proposes (among others) the option to add the word to a user dictionary.
If the user dictionary doesn’t exist yet, the spell checker offers then to help configuring it and shows the ‘General/Editors/Text Editors/Spelling’ preference pane. This preference pane however states that ‘The selected spelling engine does not exist’, but has no control to add or install an engine.
How can I put a spelling engine in existence?
Update: What solved my problem was to install also the JDT. This solution was brought up on 2008-09-07 and was accepted, but is now missing.
Are you using the C/C++ Development Tools exclusively?
The Spellcheck functionality is dependent upon the Java Development Tools being installed also.
The spelling engine is scheduled to be pushed down from JDT to the Platform,
so you can get rid of the Java related bloat soon enough. 🙂