Spell check for Jupyter Notebooks

[apptimise]

I use Jupyter Notebook inside VSCode heavily. Wondering if there is a way to enable the spell checker for the .ipynb files?

[Jason3S]

There are a couple of way to do this:

F1 Enable Spell Checking Document Language

Due to a recent bug in VS Code, you might need to restart VS Code.

If you go to VS Code settings, and search for cspell.enabledLanguageIds, you can add the language ID.

[apptimise]

thanks, but what language should I add? It works with Python (i.e. the .py files), but not with the Jupyter Notebooks. Tried the first approach as well, got an error "Reduce of empty array with no initial value", and restarting the VSCode didn't help.

[Jason3S]

jupyter - all lowercase.

[Jason3S]

Do you have some good examples I can try? The ones I found do not seem to load.
Plus, what plug-in are you using to edit / display them?

[christianll9]

I use the Microsoft Python extension on Remote-WSL and the spell checker also seems not to work (even after restart of VSCode).

I think the spell checker only works with the raw text data and not in the extension view.

[raghavendra-musubi]

We need a spell checker for Jupyter Notebooks in VSCode.

[mikessut]

I've tried this solution, but still can't get spell check in ipynb.

[YiquanGu]

Just wondering whether there's been workable solution within vscode-spell-checker or a different extension emerged since then?

[Jason3S]

Update

I took a look at this a while ago. The issue is that the Jupyter Notebooks extension controls what is displayed. The last time I checked, it was not possible to interact with the Notebook from another extension. That might have changed. When I get the chance, I'll take another look.

[Jason3S]

Good news!!!

With the new Notebook UI in VS Code (The Coming of Age of Notebooks), it is now possible to run spell checking!.

Note: It must be in the New UI! See VS Code Issue #7021 on how to open a Notebook with the new UI.

Old UI:

[VeronicaCodes]

@Jason3S i can't seem to understand how to use it? It's so confusing. Could you give a tip, pleaase?

JN spellchecking in VS code would be an extremely useful feature

[Jason3S]

@VeronicaCodes,

It should be working.
Do you see this at the bottom:

The spell part is important.

[Jason3S]

This is what I have:

@VeronicaCodes,
I'm going to close this issue. It looks like it was left open by accident. Please open a new issue with some more details on what your are seeing.

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