skyspell

A fast and handy spell checker for the command line.

Features

• Distributed as a single binary
• Handy command line interface
• Leverages the excellent enchant library, so compatible with existing providers and dictionaries
• Hand-made tokenizer, which means
  • it can parse camelCase , snake_case identifiers
  • it knows how to skip URLs, sha1s and the like
  • it handles abbreviations like in HTTPError
  • ... and more!
• Global ignore list
• Ignore list per file extension (like fn for .rs), projects, or relative path inside projects
• Skip list per file names (like always skipping files named Cargo.lock)
• Skip list per relative path inside a project (like image.svg)

skyspell in action

Basically, you give skyspell a project path and a list of files to check, then you choose how to handle the errors it finds:

$ skyspell check --project-path . $(git ls-files)
LICENSE:9:2 Redistributions
What to do?
...
> g

=> Added 'Redistributions' to the global ignore list

foo.rs:32:2 fn
What to do?
...
> e

=> Added 'fn' to the ignore list for '.rs' files

Kakoune integration

You can watch a demo of the Kakoune integration on asciinema:

Comparison with scspell

I've borrowed heavily from scspell - both for the implementation and the command line behavior.

Note that scspell does not depend on Enchant and so can not check Languages other than English, and also cannot offer suggestions for spell errors.

But it's implementation is simpler and does not require to install a spell provider.

On the other hand, scspell can apply replacements in a file automatically, a feature skyspell does not have.