spell-comments.kak

spell-comments.kak is a plugin for the Kakoune editor. It expands the included spell plugin to spell check only comments for languages supported by libclang. This plugin uses python with the libclang module in addtion to aspell used by the spell plugin.

Additional arguments can be passed by overriding the spellcommentscmd option.

declare-option str spellcommentscmd %sh{
    printf '%s' "$(dirname $kak_source)/spell-comments.py -w"
}

Automatic spell checking can be done with a hook

hook global WinSetOption filetype=c %{
    hook window NormalIdle .* spell-comments
}