On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Christian wrote:

Am 16.11.2009 um 13:28 schrieb Hans-Jörg Bibiko:

On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Christian wrote:

Hello,

is there a way that textmate can detect the used language (german or  

english). Normally I write in german and now when I type english  

everything is underlined. With a right click tm tries to correct in to  

a german word.

Did you try ⌘: to set the language to English?

There I have "Automatic by language" as standard. The OS-Prefs also set to "Automatic by language".

When I highlight the entire document (Plain Text) and hit cmd + : and set it to English nothing happens.

You do not need to select the entire doc. Simply set the language to English and change the doc by typing eg " " to trigger the spell checker.