Support a .spellignore file

[silverwind]

Misspell currently supports a -i argument but I find it more flexible to have ignored words listed in a file. In the spirit of .gitignore and other similar files, I propose supporting a .spellignore file. Currently I have implemented this in a bash script:

#!/bin/bash
MISSPELL_PACKAGE="github.com/golangci/misspell/cmd/[email protected]"

if [ -e .spellignore ]; then
  go run "$MISSPELL_PACKAGE" -i "$(xargs echo -n < .spellignore | tr ' ' ',')" "$@"
else
  go run "$MISSPELL_PACKAGE" "$@"
fi

[ldez]

I can see 2 problems:

• .spellignore name implies a kind of proximity with .gitignore syntax, and it's not something interesting in the context of misspell.
• as the list of words contains common mistakes, the ignore list should be very small unless you want to keep mistakes.

Your issue is more a proposal of a solution than a description of a problem.
Even if I understand the needs, the proposed solution is not something I want to implement.

I can see 2 other approaches:

• create a configuration file with all the options of misspell
• use the same approach as -dict by adding an option to load a file.