How to Install and Configure DSpellCheck in Notepad++ (Hunspell works again, see desc.)
Channel: Drew Naylor
Date: 2021-01-06

Notepad++ stopped including DSpellCheck at some point, so here's how to install it and make it work. The default library doesn't seem to work anymore, either, so we'll have to use the native Windows spellcheck library instead. As this may require having the Windows spellcheck feature on, these steps may not work on some versions or configurations of Windows.

Update: as of September 22, 2023, Hunspell works again, you'll just have to update DSpellCheck or reinstall it if you updated Notepad++ (I don't know if you need to update N++ or not, but I would to be safe). You'll need to download a dictionary with the button in the window that opens up a list of dictionaries in the LibreOffice GitHub repo, may take some time to load. With the fix for Hunspell, it should be able to be used on Linux just fine again if it didn't before since Wine probably doesn't help when using the Windows spellcheck library, as I really like Notepad++ and wish there were a text editor at the same level of its power and lightness.

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