spacemacs/layers/spell-checking

Spell Checking configuration layer for Spacemacs

• Description
• Install
  • Layer
  • Spell Checker Configuration
  • Disabling by default
  • Enabling auto-dictionary-mode
• Key Bindings

Description

This layer provides spell checking using Flyspell and [[https://github.com/nschum/auto-dictionary-mode][auto-dictionary-mode]].

Install

Layer

To use this configuration layer add it to your ~/.spacemacs

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(spell-checking))

Spell Checker Configuration

The built-in Emacs variable that controls which external spell-checking program is used is ispell-program-name, which can be set in your dotspacemacs/user-init function if you do not like the default. It will give priority to aspell if it is installed on your system. Another important variable to be aware of is ispell-dictionary which will control the default dictionary used by ispell-program-name (instead of using this variable you can also use the key binding SPC S d).

Disabling by default

By default, spell-checking is enabled in all available major modes and may be toggled off with SPC t S. You can default this to off by setting the variable spell-checking-enable-by-default to nil:

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
  '((spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-by-default nil)))

Enabling auto-dictionary-mode

auto-dictionary-mode tries to detect the current language from the buffer content, and activate the corresponding dictionary. You can enable it by setting the variable spell-checking-enable-auto-dictionary to something other than nil:

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
  '((spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-auto-dictionary t)))

Key Bindings

Key Binding	Description
SPC S c	flyspell correct
SPC S d	change dictionary
SPC S n	flyspell goto next error
SPC t S	toggle flyspell