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yzhang-gh / vscode-dic-completion

Dictionary completion
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.dictionary-completion
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[Feature Request] using OS dictionary #14

Open stevenlis opened 5 years ago

stevenlis commented 5 years ago

Hi, man. Thanks for this amazing extension. I just tried it for a day, which has already made my life much easier. However, I feel like the dictionary offers much fewer words than I expected. I checked another extension Spell Right I'm using, which uses the OS dictionary. I wonder if you could use OS spelling API so that the extension could have more words available.

yzhang-gh commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.

Actually, "Spell Right uses system spelling API". I guess there is no explicit dictionary (word list) available.

This extension uses, if I remember, Oxford 3000 words. There are also other word lists. Some of them have tens of thousands of words but many of them are kind of uncommon (e.g. all kinds of abbreviations). This is a trade-off.

If you find some useful word lists, this extension supports user dictionary. Or you can tell me if you believe they might also be useful for other people.

stevenlis commented 5 years ago

In fact, I was thinking about if the extension could use system spelling API to offer word choices instead of relying on a dictionary.

It actually would be nice to include some dicts while adding a toggle to let the users decide if they wanna use them.

I just realized that many words about statistics are missing.