How to disable automatic spell checking?

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  • ethanpooley
    ethanpooley
    Community Member

    @Dave_1P Add me to the list of folks who want to disable spellcheck. And the list of folks who don't understand what more your team needs to hear. We don't want it to get better, we want it to go away. Here is my list of things that appear frequently in my Notes fields and are almost always underlined, with examples where necessary:

    • Usernames ("examplebird")
    • Passwords
    • Recovery codes / One-time codes
    • Company-specific abbreviations ("OTP")
    • Domains ("somewhere.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com")
    • Filenames ("anything.txt")
    • Proper nouns (people/places) from all over the planet ("Dua Lipa")
    • Company names ("1Password")
    • Product names ("iBook")
    • Shell commands ("chmod")
    • Shell options ("--tty")
    • Custom date formats ("30Dec2024")
    • JSON/YAML property names ("firstName")
    • The acronyms "JSON" and "YAML", ironically
    • The word "subnet" and many other common tech words
    • Hex color codes ("#ffffff")

    If there are sections of long text, 1Password isn't where we composed it, so we don't need spellcheck. We likely pasted it into 1Password. This is just where we put it to store and share securely. We read it there and we copy it from there. Sometimes we refer to entries very frequently and need to locate items in the text, which is quite hard when the text is a sea of red.

    I think what we all want to know is: why can't we get a toggle? What is the opposition to allowing us to turn it off?

  • Dave_1P
    Dave_1P

    @ethanpooley

    Thank you for the very detailed list of places where spellcheck is getting in the way when you use 1Password. I've passed this along to the team and I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

    I think what we all want to know is: why can't we get a toggle? What is the opposition to allowing us to turn it off?

    I wouldn't say that there is opposition, the feature request has been filed and is currently in the team's backlog. In the meantime, adding more details on how specifically spellcheck is interfering with your workflow may help get the feature request prioritized and actioned sooner so that's why my colleagues and I have asked for those details in the past. 🙂

    -Dave

    ref: PB-42960057