How to disable spell checking in Sublime Text 3?

Question

I tried the following settings, but all it did was make things progressively worse.

\"spell_check\": false,
\"dictionary\": \"\",
\"spelling_selector\": \"\",
         


        

Answer 1

This is what setting 'spell_check' in your preferences - user or syntax specific - user preference file does:

// Set to true to turn spell checking on by default
    "spell_check": false,

Note that you are changing the DEFAULT status of spell checking.

To toggle the ACTUAL status of spell checking use F6.

If you set your default value to 'false' (simply remove all reference to spell checking in all your preferences - user or syntax specific - user preference files to allow the preferences - default of false to apply everywhere) and toggle spell checking to OFF using F6 then you should no longer see those red spell check markers anywhere.

I'd suggest removing the changes you made to "dictionary": and "spelling_selector": since you don't understand what they are for and they won't do what you want (as your own experiments have proven). I assume you made the changes you listed in your preferences - user and possibly syntax specific - user preference files so just delete them and let the preferences - default settings apply as originally set for you.

Basically using the F6 toggle is the answer you are looking for.