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Experimental

Experimental settings that may change or be removed in the future.

Setting

Scope

Description

cSpell.experimental.enableRegexpView

application

Show Regular Expression Explorer

cSpell.experimental.symbols

application

Experiment with executeDocumentSymbolProvider

Settings

cSpell.experimental.enableRegexpView

Name

cSpell.experimental.enableRegexpView

Description

Show Regular Expression Explorer

Type

boolean

Scope

application - Settings that apply to all instances of VS Code and can only be configured in user settings.

Default

false


cSpell.experimental.symbols

Name

cSpell.experimental.symbols -- Experiment with executeDocumentSymbolProvider

Description

Experiment with executeDocumentSymbolProvider. This feature is experimental and will be removed in the future.

Type

boolean

Scope

application - Settings that apply to all instances of VS Code and can only be configured in user settings.

Default

false


cSpell.reportUnknownWords

Name

cSpell.reportUnknownWords -- Strict Spell Checking

Description

By default, the spell checker reports all unknown words as misspelled. This setting allows for a more relaxed spell checking, by only reporting unknown words as suggestions. Common spelling errors are still flagged as misspelled.

  • all - report all unknown words as misspelled
  • simple - report unknown words with simple fixes and the rest as suggestions
  • typos - report on known typo words and the rest as suggestions
  • flagged - report only flagged words as misspelled

Note: This setting is deprecated. Use cSpell.unknownWords instead.

Type

Any of:

  • "all"

  • "simple"

  • "typos"

  • "flagged"

( "all" | "simple" | "typos" | "flagged" )

Scope

language-overridable - Resource settings that can be overridable at a language level.

Deprecation Message

Use Unknown Words settings instead.

Default

- none -