Since the preview panel for Markdown is seen as plaintext (by removing the markdown check it still tries to check the preview). The plugin tries to spell check the document.md.render and spits out a handfull of stuff to the errors panel.

From @jsachs microsoft/vscode#14863

• VSCode Version: Code 1.6.1 (9e4e44c19e393803e2b05fe2323cf4ed7e36880e, 2016-10-13T15:27:10.246Z)
• OS Version: Darwin x64 15.6.0
• Extensions: johnpapa.Angular1-0.1.16, mauve.terraform-0.0.2, ms-vscode.cpptools-0.9.2, samverschueren.yo-0.8.5, saviorisdead.RustyCode-0.18.0, seanmcbreen.Spell-0.8.6, xabikos.JavaScriptSnippets-1.1.0, zhuangtongfa.Material-theme-1.0.3

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Toggle spell check off
2. Toggle spell check back on. An error message occurs that the step failed.

First off - thanks heaps for the work, really helps me out, as I've been using vscode for markdown editing a lot lately.

I was hoping you could either make it default or add an option to:

1. Disable grammar / spell checking of URLs (ie the URL part between [] in ()[]), and
2. Disable grammar / spell checking of anything in the code quotes or whatever they are called (ASCII char #96, aka hex x60)
3. Code blocks:

• in ```
• indented

Also, I'd probably specify in the README that the config currently needs to go in the current project's/workspace's .vscode directory, as simply saying .vscode directory had me trying to put it in the $HOMEDIR\.vscode directory to no avail, it took a search through the code and a look at the other issue #7 to realize my error, not a huge deal, but it might help others.

Version 0.8.6 with todays insiders. Sometimes (not sure what triggers it) one of my ts files fills with spelling errors.

Generated spell.json has a wrong plain text language ID. It should be plaintext and not text. Plain text files are not spell checked when the languageIDs array only contains "text".

The README is not consistent about the default languageIDs property value:

From the Config File Reference section:

"languageIDs": [
  "markdown",
  "text"
]

From Checking Additional File Types:

"languageIDs": [
  "markdown",
  "plaintext"
]

I often write code in my markdown files. I propose we ignore words in <tags> and inside back ticks `

Steps:

1. Open a .md file (a preview editor will be opened by default)
2. Edit the file
3. Spelling checker won't work

Even PHP comments not supported?

This makes it hard to read.

When there are Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) in a word, there is No fix suggestions., implying that i also can't add the word to the ignore list

I added python to the languageIDs:

"languageIDs": [
    "markdown",
    "latex",
    "plaintext",
    "python"
],

not sure if I'm doing anything wrong. I placed the spell.json file in .vscode.

I would like to be able to install this via the vscode plugin directory (it doesn't appear to be registered?), and then just hit a shortcut key in any file to toggle spell checking. That's it. I'm not sure who would want to configure different file types to check or not check and all this other stuff you have in the readme, maybe some would find it useful but most people just want to be able to toggle a spellchecker.

Get his everytime I try to use Alt + .

Can you add support for British English?
That would be jolly good!

I am using VS code Version 1.7.1 (1.7.1).

I install this, and nothing works.

e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b35b6tk36t6nnp1/Screenshot%202016-11-12%2016.36.54.png?dl=0

Am I missing something here?

LanguageID: latex not suported for spell checking

The extension vscode-LaTeX seems not to be compatible when it comes to spell checking, is it possible to support "*.tex" files ?

This extension sends the entire content of documents to a third-party service (After The Deadline) over an insecure HTTP connection.

As this is a potentially serious privacy violation (and not something that users would typically expect, since every OS comes with a built-in spell checker these days!) it should be stated very clearly in the README that this is what will happen, and that this extension shouldn’t be installed by users that aren’t OK with all of their documents being transmitted in this manner.

It would be nice to be able to disable the plugin for the current opened file. Or at least disable the plug in itself.
I has to uninstall it because I was writing an article in italian, and everything was red 😃

Sometimes the tool gets it wrong and I want to ignore what the tool is telling me. Would be great to have an ignore option.

As seen in http://samnewman.io/blog/2016/05/30/want-to-spell-check-read-the-fine-print/

The "After The Deadline" service does support HTTPS, and it should definitely be used here (as for whether it's sensible to use a web service for something as simple as spell checking is another matter entirely)

It looks like you'd only have to update the URIs in https://github.com/vesln/teacher/blob/master/lib/api.js#L23

It looks like teacher itself is abandoned, having last been updated 4 years ago.

1. Enter the following text in an .md file.
2. Put your cursor/caret on the line ## Set Up
3. F1 > Spelling suggestions

# thin-monitor2

## Set Up

    npm install -g gulp-cli
    npm install -g karma-cli
    npm install -g protractor
    npm install -g eslint
    npm install # Automatically runs bower install

This will install required Node modules, _and_ Bower dependencies. Remember that Bower will try to retrieve external components (outside our company) like angular. You may need to specify proxy in the `.bowerrc` file

I saw that the plugin is based on https://www.npmjs.com/package/teacher, which supports other languages than english.

Would you consider pull request adding an option, or a way to detect the language used in markdown files?

Thanks for the nice extension, have a good day!

When I'm writing a git commit message the spell check does not work.

Feature request to have a spell.json ~/.vscode.json which then has individual properties overridden by the workspace spell.json ./.vscode/spell.json.

I am not sure what the convention of global extension settings is for vscode (so it can be done the way it is supposed to be done if the above is not correct), basically just a way of having global fall-back settings so they work across different projects.

Not an issue but a suggestion.

Since the AtD service has not been reliable recently, would it make sense to allow users to specify URL to local/private AtD servers?

I have created a pull request #58 as an example of how this could be implemented.

Not sure if you get access to the context menu, but it would be nice, and familiar.

It would be really nice if this plugin could check spelling within comments in any programming language expanding it's usage outside of markdown.

I'm trying to get spellcheck for .html files. I've created a spell.json file in .vscode folder (under my user folder in Windows). I've added "html" to the list of "languageIDs", restarted Code and reloaded the window, to no avail. I don't think config is working.

It appears that adding words that include a hyphen to the ignore list does not work. For example, I added "grunt-cli" to my spell.json file and it still appears in the error list.

Suggestions missing on ALT+. but present for F8

Latest patched Windows 10, brand new install of latest VSCode.

Language: default English.

Word: "acceptence"

Please let me know if I can provide more details.

see file that is not working in issue #47

this works good with small files though

Can we have a F1 option to manually enable/disable the spell checker?

I mostly only use spell checker when I am writing the Readme.md. There is really no point to enable the spell checker when I am writing code.

Hi,
I like what they have in IDEA based IDEs. They can universally spell check symbols in code.

Because you know that you can parse

• SomeClassName as words some class name
• SOME_CONSTANT as words some constants
• underscored_symbol_name as words underscored symbol names
• etc

and then you can check it against vocabulary.

With this approach you can support all programming languages without any extra work for each of them.

When adding a word to the ignore list with word-wrap enabled, word-wrap becomes disabled in the process.

For example, open https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/master/release-notes/latest.md for 0.10.7 release and you'll see the correction don't go to the end of the document.

Please support spell checking JavaScript.

• VSCode Version: 1.4.0-insiders
• OS Version: Linux

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Markdown spelling extension
2. F8 thru a markdown file
   

The error message should be human readable. I'd change it to a sentense and also remove the suggestions.

I try to build and get this:

However the only errors are from my README.md file, obviously it's not going to hurt debugging:

This forces an extra step in debugging or I can restart vscode (and not open README.md) in order to avoid this error message for spelling errors.

These should probably all be warnings, they're primarily to do with technical terms that teacher doesn't understand, URL fragments and package names.

I'm assuming there is a race condition where occasionally the character before the last one typed is evaluated afterwards. Perhaps a debounce function would fix?

It's very annoying to see every name etc. colored all the time. We need a way to opt in and out from the feature on the fly.

Hi,

This spell check extension is simply superb and was a great help to me for writing in Latex.

I observed that spelling/grammar errors were not shown for .tex files that were longer than 600 or 700 lines. The spelling/grammar errors were shown for files smaller than 600 lines in length.

I have long been in search of way to ignore all within a backtick whether it be

single backtick
or

triple backtick

or with

Write-Host -Foreground-Color red 'Code tag'

I recently took the time to get a regex string that works, I hope it is of use to others, or if there is issue with it let me know. But if it can be added to the README, I thought it could help save some time for people who want it, or to the default json config?

"/(({1,3})([^]+?)\\\\2)/gm"

Thanks!
-Eric

install extension
open markdown file
in command palette, run the "suggest fix" command

result:

Warning: Running the contributed command: 'Spell.suggestFix' failed.

When you correct a word that is capitalized (because it is, say, at the beginning of a sentence), the word it is replaced with is lower case.

Hi,

I installed this today and it's not working. I checked through the files in the .vscode file and everything seems to be in-place. I'm i skipping a step or do I have something else to activate? Thanks-Adolfo

spell.json won't be generated if the .vscode directory does not exist in the workspace.

Although vscode works behind proxy normally spell checker is unable to display corrections when behind proxy.

Hi,

I just installed the package and it doesn't seem to work for me.
I have the default spell.json in the .vscode folder, markdown and plaintext enabled. Didn't work for a few minutes. I deleted a file in .vscode, then it worked for a few minutes. I added a few words to the ignoreWordsList by clicking "Ignore word" (or similar).
Now it stopped working again and I cannot get it to work. Connection to internet is available. The "Problems" panel is empty.

Am I missing sth?

Thanks

steps to reproduce:

• open project
• open a .md file
• close code
• reopen code

The spellcheck is only available once i close the .md editor and reopen it.

Or is this desired behaviour, because of security concerns? If so, the button "enable spellcheck" in the bottom statusbar should be available.

Check spell just in the comments part of .py , .c etc. is very useful. Is it possible to achieve this ?