[Feature] Global disabling for unknown words warning

[bretonics]

Request

Add global setting to disable diagnostic of "Unknown word".

This would disable warnings in Problems Pane regarding "unknown words", which may be:

• Text placeholders like "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Repellendus ullam veniam pariatur eum modi! Illum expedita quam aperiam quidem eaque hic ratione. Maxime, porro minima repellendus veritatis iusto quia eos!"
• Mixed language words
• Missing vocabulary words

[Jason3S]

@bretonics,

There are already a few options:

Enable lorem-ipsum

The spell checker comes with a lorem-ipsum dictionary.

The setting cSpell.customDictionaries can be used to enable dictionaries.

Adding the following to your .vscode/settings.json file will enable it:

    "cSpell.customDictionaries": {
        "lorem-ipsum": true
    },

To get a list of available dictionaries, use the command: Spell: Open Spell Checker File Information View.

Change the reporting options

It is possible to change how the spell checker reports unknown word. See setting: cSpell.unknownWords.

[bretonics]

Thank you for the reply @Jason3S. Missed that there was a custom dictionary for lorem-ipsum. Thank you, I enabled it for that case.

As per cSpell.unknownWords, I actually have it set to report-simple but still reports unknown words.

I was looking to see if we can disable words that were in category "unknown word", as opposed to "misspelled word". For instance in the image below, it would be nice to completely omit warning on unknown but still have misspelled words bubble up.

[ASIDE] Some settings, e.g. "cSpell.customDictionaries": {"lorem-ipsum": true},, aren't recognized in the base configuration .cspell.json that gets extended. Some properties seem to work, e.g. enableFiletypes, unknownWords, userWords, but others like above don't.

What could I possibly be doing wrong?

[Jason3S]

[ASIDE] Some settings, e.g. "cSpell.customDictionaries": {"lorem-ipsum": true},, aren't recognized in the base configuration .cspell.json that gets extended. Some properties seem to work, e.g. enableFiletypes, unknownWords, userWords, but others like above don't.

What could I possibly be doing wrong?

cSpell.customDictionaries is an extension only setting. For .cspell.json use:

"dictionaries": ["lorem-ipsum"],

VS Code has different merge rules for settings and cannot merge arrays.

[Jason3S]

As per cSpell.unknownWords, I actually have it set to report-simple but still reports unknown words.

I was looking to see if we can disable words that were in category "unknown word", as opposed to "misspelled word". For instance in the image below, it would be nice to completely omit warning on unknown but still have misspelled words bubble up.

A word is considered "misspelled" if there is an explicit fix. The spell checker has a list of a couple thousand commonly misspelled English words and their fixes. Otherwise it is considered "unknown", meaning it wasn't found in any dictionary.

• report-simple - will report misspelled and unknown words with simple (one or two letter) fixes.
• report-common-typos - will report only words that are a known misspelling.