On 12 Aug 2008, at 05:23, Eric Uner wrote:
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Can someone point me to a relevant example or some resources that might help? I feel like I am missing some simple, obvious, but clearly essential step.
Have a look at http://manual.macromates.com/en/scope_selectors
Especially the part about ranking. I.e. “comment” would be more specific than “source.c”, and thus the former wins (and disables spell checking).
You want something like “source.c comment”.