markdown spell checking with triple nested bullet point

Question

I am confused about what is going on in this example and why spell checking is not working any help is appreciated.

While editing a markdown file with spell checking enabled the following happens:

* This line is spellchecked
    - This line is also spellchecked
        - This line is not spellchecked

I also noticed that this also doesn't work

* This line is really long but spellchecked
    continuation of text after linewrap from the previous line, this line is not spellchecked

Indentation is 1 tab character per level.

Google has turned up nothing but since the - is not bold on the third bullet as the rest are I assume this is some kind of markdown spec violation but I am not sure which. Is there a way to make this work?

Answer 1

Check the syntax id of the text not spell checked.

First define the command SynID:

command SynID  echo synIDattr(synID(line("."), col("."), 1), "name")

Then move the cursor to the text that is not spell checked and execute :SynID. For "normal" text it returns nothing. I tested your markdown snippet and it returned markdownCodeBlock for the third level.

If you just indent by 2 spaces, the third level is spell checked, but the fourth level is detected as markdownCodeBlock.

Looks like it was already reported.