Disable Spellcheck for hashtags (tags)

Use case or problem

Ultimately, a cleaner editing screen and interface without hashtags showing underlines requiring a spellcheck.

Proposed solution

My thinking is that it would be simple to detect a line of continuous text that starts with a hashtag ‘#’ and enable such a ‘word’ (or string) to be overlooked by spellchecking.

This could also be an Obsidian option for user to select either under ‘SpellCheck’ or under ‘Tags’ settings.

Current workaround (optional)

I’m not familiar with any possible work-around.

Related feature requests (optional)

I found none.

I tried editing the post under ‘Current Workaround’ but there was an error when saving…

Current Workaround adendum:
I realise that each hashtag could probably be entered/added to a user dictionary and then not be highlighted for spellchecking, but this would quickly become tedious for continued use of numerous hashtags.

Such a manual intervention would interrupt the glorious workflow that is possible in Obsidian which I don’t think is consistent with the ethos of we are there to achieve and the tool that Obsidian is.

Honestly, I think any text that contains any non-alphabetical symbols shouldn’t be spell-checked. That’s how it is in most browsers, I believe.

It was lovely to see that Obsidian have now made this a standard feature!!!
Awesome :smiley:

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