

However, if it the "Locales" is set to French ( fr-FR), then the checker will only check French. So, if your browser is United States English ( en-US), leaving this blank will still do US English checking. If any value is given for the "Locales", then Atom will not automatically add the browser language. If no locale is given, then Atom will attempt to infer the language based on environment variables and settings. More than one language can be used, simply separate them by commas. To list these, set the "Locales" configuration option to the IETF tag (en-US, fr-FR, etc). Changing the dictionaryĮxcept for Mac, Atom needs to know what language to use to perform spell-checking.

The first scope that's listed is the one you should add to the list of scopes in the settings for the Spell Check package. This will trigger a notification which will contain a list of scopes.

(cmd-shift-p for Mac or ctrl-shift-p for Windows or Linux), and run the Editor: Log Cursor Scope command. To enable Spell Check for your current file type: put your cursor in the file, open the Command Palette The Grammars config option is a list of scopes for which the package will check for spelling errors. You can override this from the Spell Check settings in the Settings View (cmd-,). Use cmd-shift-: for Mac or ctrl-shift-: for Windows or Linux to bring up the list of corrections when your cursor is on a misspelled word.īy default spell check is enabled for the following files: Highlights misspelling in Atom and shows possible corrections.
