Hack support for @mentions

[bkeepers]

This is a hack to ignore @mentions when checking spelling.

I don't really expect this to be merged, but wanted to start a conversation about how to extend the spellcheck module.

@wooorm any ideas?

[wooorm]

:+1: I’ve got an idea, hold on, I’ll check if it works!

[wooorm]

Nope. That doesn’t work. I thought if I used remark-github, which detects those mentions and wraps them in a link would hide them from retext, but retext is “smart” enough to still see them...

I wonder why my macOS spell checker ignores them though:

• maybe it knows about mentions but I doubt it;
• maybe, similar to how digits work in spell checkers (if there aren’t enough word-characters in a value, values are ignored as well), but I doubt that as well as it’s just one character.

Using at-mentions is pretty common, so I think I’m actually ok with adding support for them, through an option, like this. Could you fix the linting issue? "@" > '@'

[bkeepers]

Using at-mentions is pretty common, so I think I’m actually ok with adding support for them, through an option, like this.

:cool:

Could you fix the linting issue? "@" > '@'

Done

[wooorm]

I came up with a better solution, so your style fix was unfortunately in vain! 😬

The thing I came up with, which could also work for other non-natural-language things (and I thought of this before regarding dates, not sure why I forgot it again), is to classify those differently. That‘s the SourceNode.

There’s a new plugin which does exactly that: retext-syntax-mentions. You can use it by adding .use(require(syntaxMentions')) somewhere before .use(spell).