Language Detection

[Bengt]

I one's primary language is other than english, one usually writes a lot of text in that language while coding with english keywords. Currently Atom corrects spellings according to the system dictionary. This causes significant performance penalties on big files where the language is another than the system language and thus every word gets annotated as misspelled. To avoid slowdowns and visual clutter Atom Spell Check should detect the language used and spellcheck using the according dictionary.

There is the corner case of writing code using english keywords and commenting in another language. One might argue that this is really bad and should be avoided at all costs, but there are cases where mixing languages is OK. For example, when writing a presentation in german and citing code that is in english, Atom Spell Check could spellcheck all parts of the document.

[kevinsawicki]

Thanks for reporting this but it sounds very similar to #11 so I'm going to close it out as a duplicate.

[Bengt]

The difference to #11 is that this is more granular. #11 is about selecting dictionaries per user, while I suppose selecting dictionaries per (fragment of) content.

[Bengt]

In multi-language documents, being able to use the spell-checker on all languages at once is certainly a nice-to-have feature, [...]

@jdhoek

Thanks for weighing in on this.