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Snippets and spellcheck

A text snippet is a piece of text you insert by name, such as a sign-off, a disclaimer, or a component you use in every post. Manage them in Settings > Features > Text snippets, and click New snippet to add one.

Each snippet becomes a command named Insert: followed by its name, so you can run it from the command palette (Ctrl+P) or give it a hotkey in Settings > Hotkeys.

Snippets can hold placeholders, filled in when you insert them:

Placeholder Becomes
{{selection}} The selected text, so a snippet can wrap it
{{cursor}} Where the caret goes afterwards
{{date}} Today, in the date format from Settings
{{time}} The current time, as HH:MM
{{title}} The post’s title

Zeku underlines misspelled words as you write. Right-click a word for suggestions, or to add it to your dictionary. Code, inline code, and URLs are left alone.

Your dictionary belongs to your computer, not to a project, so it never reaches your repo. Turn spellcheck off in Settings > Usability > Spellcheck.

Zeku checks English, with a dictionary built into the app, so spellcheck works the same on every platform and offline.