Add spellcheck in the AI chat input

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

As far as I know spelling mistakes + plus bad grammar etc can decrease the quality of model responses on average so a spellchecker seems like an obvious thing that should be added.

Apparently the absence of a spellcheck is because the text input is build from VSCode components in such a way that it’s treated like normal code input so I’m not sure how easy it would be to do. In any case seems like something that could improve code quality and is a complete no-brainer in terms of usefulness.

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Hi @user597 and thank you for your feature request.

For clarification, does your operating system not provide an automatic spell checker or is it prevented through vscode input field type?

I understand that spelling mistakes do have some impact on models specially when it’s about complex tasks where precision is required.

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Hi.

I use KDE, Ubuntu. It don’t support spell checking for Cursor too as default.

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For what it’s worth, this is completely unnecessary.

You can just mash the keyboard and LLMs can completely understand what you meant to type.

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Hi @condor ,

My operating system is Windows 11. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to provide a spellchecker by default. I’m not sure if there is some way to add it. Right-clicking on the input opens a menu with only “undo”, “redo” , “copy”, ”paste” and “select all”. No spellcheck options.

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Win 11 here too, and pretty bummed about the lack of spell check. I mean, honestly, I’m really wondering if I can use Cursor to put together a VS Code extension that specifically targets Cursor and enables cSpell integration with the chat window. I’ve never put a VS Code extension together before, but there’s quite literally no time like the present to see what’ll happen if I try, right? ;x

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This would be really useful. I understand Chromium already has a spellchecker. Am I wrong?