How to automatically link additional dictionaries

[assyrus-favolo]

I have a codebase with mixed language, so I added the Italian dictionary as a dev dependency:

  "devDependencies": {
    "@cspell/dict-it-it": "^3.1.4",
    ...
    "cspell-cli": "^9.0.1",
    ...
  },

ran npx cspell link add @cspell/dict-it-it to link it and added the appropriate locale to the configuration in cspell.json:

"language": "en,it-IT",

I have a pre-commit hook that checks the spelling of the code, but it doesn't pick up the additional language on a clean repository, I have to run the link sub-command manually again, so I was wondering if there is a way to link installed dictionaries automatically.
I've tried reading through #3426, but I'm not sure if it is actually appropriate to add an import for node_modules\@cspell\dict-it-it\cspell-ext.json of the Italian dictionary extension in my project's cspell.json

[Jason3S]

@assyrus-favolo,

Sorry for the confusion. The link command only sets your user configuration, it won't work for a repo config. The way to fix it is to use the manual config:

{
  "language": "en,it-IT",
  "import": ["@cspell/dict-it-it/cspell-ext.json"]
}

[assyrus-favolo]

The link command only sets your user configuration

Oh, so you mean that applies globally?

[Jason3S]

Yes, to your global user setting.

[Jason3S]

I'm working on updating the link command to update your local cspell.json or cspell.config.yaml file. But, at the moment, it only works for the global user config.

[assyrus-favolo]

That would be lovely, thanks for being so responsive 🙏
This tool is single-handedly saving my sanity