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Spellchecking should be aware of the user-level dictionary on MacOS #5553

Open frou opened 2 years ago

frou commented 2 years ago

Problem description

MacOS has a shared spellchecking dictionary where a custom word "learned" in one application is then recognised as a valid word in other applications.

For example, learning a word in Notes.app:

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...and then it will later be recognised as a valid word in TextEdit.app, but not in Sublime Text:

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Those custom words end up in a user-level plain text file ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary, one word per line. (There's probably also an API to interact with it?)

At the moment, Sublime Text is not making use that user-level dictionary, and so we have to maintain a duplicate one in the "added_words" array in Preferences.sublime-settings if we want to not be hassled by red squiggles.

Additional Information

ST Build 4126 macOS 12.5.1

bogenschlag commented 1 year ago

Oh god, yes, please. AFAIR there once was an ST2 plugin to achieve this, but whoever made it sadly gave up on it.

DesBw commented 10 months ago

Please add this feature. BBEdit supports the feature. But, Sublime is a way faster to open large text files. It would be neat if Sublime supports it.