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CSpell

The CSpell mono-repo, a spell checker for code.

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Documentation

Documentation - CSpell

Third-Party Video Presentations

Some videos related to CSpell and the Code Spell Checker for VS Code.

• Spell Checking Documentation in DevOps Pipelines by Houssem Dellai
• Don't Worry About Spelling...VS Code Can Do It For You!! by James Q Quick
• Spell Checking In VSCode - VSCode Pro Tips
• Spell Check in VS Code with Code Spell Checker - Extension Highlight
• Spell check your code from the command line with Cspell
• How to Use VS Code Spell Checker - Detailed walkthrough to setup and use multiple languages
• Code Spell Checker Extension for Visual Studio Code

Packages

• cspell -- cspell command-line application
• @cspell/eslint-plugin -- CSpell ESLint Plugin
• cspell-bundled-dicts -- collection of dictionaries bundled with cspell.
• cspell-glob -- glob library.
• cspell-io -- i/o library.
• cspell-lib -- cspell library used for code driven spelling checking (used by the application).
• cspell-types -- cspell types and JSON schema for cspell configuration files.
• cspell-tools -- tool used to compile dictionaries.
• cspell-trie-lib -- trie data structure used to store words.
• cspell-trie -- trie data tool used to store words.
• hunspell-reader -- reads Hunspell files and outputs words.

Related Packages

• cspell-cli -- cspell-cli is useful for including cspell directly from GitHub.

  Example install: npm install -g git+https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-cli.

  This will add the cspell-cli command, which is an alias of the cspell command.

RFCs

Link	Description	Status
rfc-0001	Fixing common misspellings	Not started
rfc-0002	Improving Generated Suggestions	Done
rfc-0003	Plug-ins: Adding file parsers	In Progress
rfc-0004	Support Marking Issues as Known	Not started

CSpell for enterprise

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Security contact information

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Versions

	version	Node	Status	Maintenance	End of Free Support
cspell	8.x	18.x	In Active Development	TBD	TBD
cspell	7.x	16.x	Transitioning to Maintenance	2023-10-01	2023-11-01
cspell	6.x	14.14.x	Paid support only[^1]	2023-04-01	2023-05-01
cspell	5.x	12.x	Paid support only[^1]	-	2022-10-01
cspell	4.x	10.x	Paid support only[^1]	-	2022-05-01

[^1]: Support - Street Side Software

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