Vscode-spell-checker: Add native words used by languages to the built-in dictionary

[peabnuts123]

This is a really nice extension and I want to run it all the time to pick up typos in natural-language strings in my applications, comments, variable, etc. HOWEVER, it's kind of a major pain that my user list has to be clogged with a myriad of words that are used by the underlying language e.g. stdlibs in C, attribute names in HTML etc.

I understand the necessity to add sets of tech-related words like modal or mixins but I would really expect this extension, considering it can spellcheck JSX out-of-the-box to know words like colspan, thead, checkbox, etc. instead of what appears to be strictly natural language English words.

Thoughts?

[Jason3S]

You make a good point about HTML keywords missing from .jsx file types. That is an easy one to add. I'll include a fix for that in the next release.

You can try it yourself by adding the following lines to your VS Code user settings.

"cSpell.languageSettings": [
        { "languageId": "typescriptreact,javascriptreact", "dictionaries": ["html"] }
]

At the moment it is not possible to have different dictionaries used for different sections of a document. I have considered it. Maybe a later enhancement.

[Jason3S]

One enhancement I am definitely considering is to be able to add dictionary words for specific file types.

For example, when you want to add a word, you can choose which list it belongs to.

[peabnuts123]

That sounds like a good step going forward, as people could then author wordlists that cover standard words within certain frameworks. I am actually facing painpoints using Handlebars templates (in EmberJS) so lacking words like colspan are technically not supported by the scope of the extension. But, adding per-language wordlists might be a good way to remediate this. Is there a way I can add a language setting like the one you mentioned above to pull across the "html" disctionary into Handlebars?

Something like

"cSpell.languageSettings": [
        { "languageId": "handlebars", "dictionaries": ["html"] }
]

[Jason3S]

Yes, exactly.

This might work a bit better:

"cSpell.languageSettings": [
        { "languageId": "handlebars", "dictionaries": ["html", "css", "fonts"] }
]

The extension already supports per language word lists. The default configuration is here: cspell-default.json. I will add handlebars the next time I update the library.

[peabnuts123]

Ah very nice… thanks for your support!

[Jason3S]

With today's release of 1.3.6 of the spell checker, handlebars support should be in.

[peabnuts123]

I have 1.3.6 but I still have the following in the default settings:

  // Specify file types to spell check.
  "cSpell.enabledLanguageIds": [
    "c",
    "cpp",
    "csharp",
    "go",
    "javascript",
    "javascriptreact",
    "json",
    "latex",
    "markdown",
    "php",
    "plaintext",
    "python",
    "text",
    "typescript",
    "typescriptreact",
    "yml"
  ],

is that correct?

[Jason3S]

Your right, I forgot to turn it on by default.

It is easy to turn on:

F1 Enable Spell Checking Document Language

short cut:

F1 Enable Language

or

Click:

Then Enable it:

[Jason3S]

handlebars is now turned on by default. I'm going to close this issue for now. If you think there is more to be done, please let me know.

[peabnuts123]

Whoops this thread got away from me. Thanks so much for your help 🙂