Not flagging several miss-spellings of "corresponding"

[andy-z]

Out of "coresponding, correspending, corrusponding, correspendi" only the last one is flagged. This is with C++ mode:

[Jason3S]

@andy-z,

This is caused by the allowCompoundWords setting that is on by default for C++.

To turn it off:

Section in a cspell.json

{
    "languageSettings": [
        {
            "languageId": "c,cpp",
            "allowCompoundWords": false
        }
    ]
}

VS Code Settings:

    "cSpell.languageSettings": [
        {
            "languageId": "c,cpp",
            "allowCompoundWords": false
        }
    ]

[andy-z]

Thanks for suggestions, I tried to add it to settings.json but it does not change a thing. Besides I suspect turning it off will flag a lot of variable name, will it not?

[Jason3S]

Thanks for suggestions, I tried to add it to settings.json but it does not change a thing.

There is a bug in VS Code, that if you add a new section to settings.json, it won't get picked up until VS Code is restarted.

Besides I suspect turning it off will flag a lot of variable name, will it not?

Yes, most likely.

[maroc81]

I just found this after trying for a couple of hours to figure out why "satisifed" was not flagged as a bad word. Turns out this setting was the problem. Turning it off revealed a number other words that were being missed. Any reason it's on by default for C++? I'm guessing it can't be restricted to code only (i.e. don't allow compound words in comments)?

[Jason3S]

@maroc81,

Because it is a breaking change, I'll turn it off by default for all languages on the next major release.

[Jason3S]

It is now off by default.

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