Spell checking with Hunspell in VS Code

January 01, 2019 / linux, vscode

1. Install Hunspell and the appropriate dictionaries through your package manager. On Ubuntu the packages are called hunspell and hunspell-<ISO language code>.
2. Install the Spell Right extension for VS Code.
3. Create a symlink for the system dictionaries in the VS Code configuration directory: ln -s /usr/share/hunspell ~/.config/Code/Dictionaries.

Links

• Hunspell spell checker
• Spell Right on the VS Code Marketplace
• Spell Right on Github with more configuration instructions and troubleshooting.