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pixycz
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
How to disable automatic spell checking?
My language is not supported and I have a lot of texts red-underlined from the spell-checker. I don't want it. How can I turn it off?
1Password Version: 8.8.0
Extension Version: Not Provided...
ethanpooley
11 months agoNew Contributor
1P_Dave 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?