cSpell thinks accross is correct (should be across)

[noalbalint]

Info

Kind of Issue

• change in behavior (?)

Which Tool or library

• cspell -- the command-line spelling tool

Which Version

Version:

Issue with supporting library?

• No

OS:

• Macos

version:

11.1

Bug Description

Describe the bug

When I write 'accross', cSpell should mark this as an error, because the correct spelling is 'across'. I have not added 'accross' to my user dictionary, so it seems to be an issue with the dictionary used by cSpell?

also looks like acccross (3c) is accepted. But not accccross, (4c) thankfully.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• open VScode
• install cSpell
• write accross somewhere in the code
• expect to see blue underline

Expected behavior

• no blue underline

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[nschonni]

Might be an issue for the cspell-dicts repo.
You can try to run cspell trace acccross to figure out what dictionary is putting this in, but I didn't get any hits running it locally

[Jason3S]

Thank you for bringing this up. It is the same issue as #317 and #999

[jim-hays-root]

@nschonni FYI, looks like you were looking for acccross while OP is describing accross.

[Jason3S]

@jim-hays-root,

The issue is with allowCompoundWords being set to true.
For some languages like CPP and Python, the dictionary definition sets it to true, (cspell-dicts/cpp allowCompoundWords).

@noalbalint can turn off this behavior by adding the following to a cspell.json file:

"languageSettings": [
    {
        "languageId": "*",
        "allowCompoundWords": false
    }
]

This tells the spell checker: "For all programming languages, turn off allowCompoundWords".

In a later version of CSpell, all languages will have allowCompoundWords off by default. Because it is a breaking change, it has not yet been done.