Thanks.  
>Then I got a problem: I am writing many texts in german, the
>spell-checker marks most words. It seems to me, that every
>red underlined word is repainted, that is very annoying if
>you write a long column. 
Ah yes, bugs 131 and 133.  I had started a fix for that a while back and 
wound up abandoning it for some reason -- I forget why.  Let me dig back in 
and see if I can finish it.  
Paul