Defining external dictionaries on Windows

[cswartzvi]

Hi - My company is looking to consolidate some of our custom dictionaries into a single source (internal use only). We tried hosting it on our local git server but ran into SSL issues (our local server uses a non-default CA). Next, we tried to drop the dictionary on a shared Windows UNC path, but this also did not work (the spell checker file information editor shows the path, but it is relative to the current drive: //nas/my/dictionary.txt -> D:/nas/my/dictionary.txt). My questions:

1. Is there a way to specify non-default CAs for cspell through vscode (similar to How to use "external" dictionaries (f.ex. via HTTP)? cspell#4035)? Or is there a way to use the Windows Cert Store?
2. Is it possible to use Windows UNC paths for custom dictionaries?

Love this extension. Thanks!

[Jason3S]

@cswartzvi,

It should be possible to use UNC paths for custom dictionaries, but you will need to define them as File URLs: \\nas\my\dictionary.txt -> file://nas/my/dictionary.txt.

I don't have access to a Windows machine for the next few weeks, so I cannot try it out.

Please let me know if that works for you.