Feature Request: append words into cspell.json

[Jason3S]

Discussed in #4832

^{Originally posted by kevintraver September 13, 2023}
It would be awesome if the cli could directly add to words, flagWords, or ignoreWords in cspell.json.

I am able to do this now using jq:

jq --arg words "$(cspell --words-only --unique . | sort --ignore-case | xargs -I{} echo '{}')" '.words |= . + ($words | split("\n"))' .cspell.json

It would be awesome if there was a flag when running the cli to just update cspell.json

[unlikelyzero]

I could see the utility in this in the case that a core list of cspell dictionaries can't be updated in time for a PR (with failing cspell lint) to merge

[Jason3S]

@unlikelyzero,

What use cases were you thinking of?

It has always been possible to add words to the configuration files. This enhancement is more about having the command line tool add them for you, instead of having to manually edit the local cspell config. Maybe you see a bigger need.

To support an interactive mode, it is necessary for the cli to be able to write to the config files.

[unlikelyzero]

In the event a central dictionary is maintained outside the offending repo