Learn spellings / Add words to dictionary

[thedataking]

It seems I can't teach the spell-check new words. This is a crucial feature, please add. If this feature exists already, it needs to be made discoverable, e.g. by right clicking the word, from the command palette, etc.

Thanks!

[kevinsawicki]

It doesn't already exist and it should be added.

[jamtur01]

+1

[Bengt]

Could or should this be done using the user dictionary at the system level? I know that hunspell and myspell use such dictionaries. It might but also be useful to have dictionaries at the project level if there is a lot of specialized terminology.

[biffen]

+1

[ghost]

+1

[pschloss]

+1

[tomByrer]

+1
Quick(er) work-around: if I could easily get to a text user-dictionary & edit it by hand.

[bergwerf]

I don't believe this features has been added yet. I've been spending hours trying to figure out a way to get rid of those extremely annoying red dashes below quite common words like "wireframes", "frontend", "backend", etc. I found that spell-check relies on node-spellchecker which ships dictionaries for hunspell itself (leaving any system dictionaries, I think) The only way I found to add words is to edit /usr/share/atom/resources/app/node_modules/spell-check/node_modules/spellchecker/vendor/hunspell_dictionaries/en_US.dic Of course I do not recommend this method to anyone. I hope a more user friendly way of adding words to the spell checker dictionary will be implemented soon!

[CrouseMatthew]

+1

[mrz1836]

+1

[Wikunia]

+1
Project level or globally and maybe export/import the words this would be useful for teams.

[CrouseMatthew]

+1

[willwoodlief]

+1

[laughedelic]

+1

[Meligy]

+1

Ideally globally, with an option in context menu or CMD + SHIFT + P.

The effect will be nice saved to a configuration file (whatever Atom uses for user package config, not familiar with config in Atom still sorry).

Obviously, it's open source, so thanks a million to everyone working on this whom I benefit from their work without asking for anything.

[OmarIthawi]

+1

[peter1000]

+1

[mnquintana]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! However, all these +1s and 👍s are just adding noise, so to minimize that I'm going to lock this issue for now – we may unlock it once someone starts working on this enhancement to get further feedback.

[winstliu]

At the current pace of development, this feature will be available starting in Atom 1.11.0.