The GAIM text replacement plugin in 0.75 and 0.76 only displays changes locally, it doesn't actually change the outgoing buffer. See URL for corrosponding bug in gaim tracker This little non-intrusive fix from GAIM cvs fixes it: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/plugins/spellchk.c?r1=1.53&r2=1.54 It would be super sweet for the gaim ebuild to fix this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Whoops pointed to wrong patch, this one is right: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/plugins/spellchk.c?r1=1.54&r2=1.55
Committed to CVS. No revision bump. Give it a while, rsync, and re-emerge gaim-0.76.