How to disable spell checking in Atom?

Question

I would like to turn off spell checking in Atom in one file. I cannot find any shortcut or option for that.

When I open a file with some non-programming stuff I get a red flood from the spell checker.

Answer 1

Disable spell checking in Atom

For temporary solution or for someone like me permanent solution:

1. go to "File / Settings / Packages"
2. search "spell-check"
3. click to button "Disable"

Answer 2

Disable the spell-check plugin

1. Go to Settings > Packages > Spell Check.
2. Click the Disable button.

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Toggle spell check for the current file

1. Open up the Command Pallette (⌘+⇧+p).
2. Type in Spell Check: Toggle.
3. Hit enter.

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Create a shortcut to toggle spell checking

1. Go to Atom > Keymap...

2. Add those lines at the bottom of the keymap.cson file:

   'atom-text-editor':
     'cmd-alt-s': 'spell-check:toggle'
   

3. Restart Atom.

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Disable spell check for certain file types

There is a default list of scopes which triggers spell checking. You have to define your own list if you want to modify it.

1. Go to Settings > Packages > Spell Check.
2. Enter your modified list of scopes into the Settings > Grammars.

How to define my own list of scopes?

The default list of scopes includes: source.asciidoc, source.gfm, text.git-commit, text.plain, text.plain.null-grammar

If you don't know which scope applies to your currently opened file:

1. Open up the Command Pallette (⌘+⇧+p).
2. Type in Editor: Log Cursor Scope.

3. Hit enter.

4. A notification like this should pop up:

5. The first item on the list is the scope which applies to your file.

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Further reading

You can read more on the GitHub page of this package: https://github.com/atom/spell-check#spell-check-package.

Answer 3

I would like to turn off spell checking in Atom in one file

There is a feature request (Add feature: toggle on/off) for this:

I added the feature 'Toggle' to the 'Packages -> Spell Check' menu.

Update 08/01/2016:

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Answer 4

I tried to open a very large non-English file, and the spell checker caused Atom to completely freeze. Worse, even after I kill Atom and try to relaunch it, it tries to open the same file immediately.

Eventually I had to run apm disable spell-check in the command line. This is the solution when you can't even launch Atom.

Answer 5

Disabling spell-check plugin itself is not recommended. Instead you should remove that cursor scope from included ones in spell-check plugin.

Steps for removing cursor scope from spell-check:

1. Open the file that you want to be excluded from spell check.
2. Open command pallete (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run the Editor: Log Cursor Scope command. This will trigger a notification which will contain a list of scopes.
3. Remove the scopes listed in the pop up from spell-check included scopes in settings. Included scopes can be found in Grammers section of spell-check settings(Settings > Packages > Spell Check > Grammers).

This should disable spell check for that particular kind of file only.