Support spell-checking

[Exadra37]

While I type I usually do a lot of typos and I am used to have the browser highlighting them and giving the suggestions to fix my typo.

Would be possible to have support for spell-checking inside the markown editor?

I am not asking to do it via browser extensions, just to allow the native browser spell-checker to work.

[josevalim]

It depends if Monaco supports spell checking. If it does, we can enable it. You can look at other PRs that added features to the editor in case you want to give it a try!

[jonatanklosko]

Yeah, unfortunately currently it doesn't, see microsoft/monaco-editor#1977.

[Exadra37]

Oh, this is a really disappointing discover :(

[mrinterweb]

Ouch. That's a real bummer. Every other note taking app I've used has spell checking. It is one of those essential features of text entry that I would think would be a necessary feature. Obviously, spell checking doesn't make sense when editing code (most of the time). For a markdown field, it should be available.

I guess there would be three options:

• Perform server-side spell checking, doesn't sound as ideal as just using the web browser's built in spell checking.
• Improve monaco to support browser spell checking
• Use a different editor

[BrooklinJazz]

I usually paste my entire .livemd into Grammarly, then do spell checking there. Then copy the result back into the .livemd file. Keep in mind the livebook web editor overrides the text file so you want to make sure Livebook isn't running. Also, consider staging or committing the draft version before spell checking incase it accidentally causes any issues.

I would love built-in spell checking, but this works as a decent workaround.