Recent Notepad++ started to come with spell checking which puts "red lines that appear under misspelled words" (ms office help terminology) mainly in txt files. I'd like to disable it everywhere.
motivation
I would like to disable this feature for several reasons:
- (usability-obstacle) (eye-strain) the red lines get in the way while reading text.
(In particular if you suffer from vision impairment, dyslexia or other reading difficulties, you may want this to be off.) - (unwelcome feature) arguably, it can be considered ill-positioned/unnecessary to make it a mandatory feature
- I do not need it
- (privacy) I'm not comfortable with the idea that yet-another piece of code is reading my writings
(diary, anyone?) - you can call me paranoid but in today's word I wanna keep this at minimum.
edit: actually, it has already been exploited.
what I've tried
I've tried looking around in (menu bar)
-> settings
-> preferences...
but the option, should it exist, eluded me.
I've also tried going to (menu bar)
-> plugins
-> plugin manager
-> show plugin manager
-> (tabs)
-> installed
, search spell-Checker
and uninstall (Remove
) it. But the lines are still underlined with red. :(
How do I disable spell-checking in Notepad++?