line highlighting and spell check

 I also experience the same problem in multiple Mac environments. It is very distracting.

I see this behavior with the Soda Dark theme and the Tomorrow Night Bright colors. It's a shame to have such a wonderful product marred by a silly error like this.

Me too

Same here, also Soda Dark theme (+ slightly modified monokai color scheme). Quite annoying.

Using a white background, I was able to at least prevent the misspelled words from disappearing.  I have not noticed any difference in the behavior by turning line highlighting on or off.

The original poster reported that "the text will go from black to white".  I am getting an intermittent change to a radioactive bright green.  If anyone has something other than radioactive bright green, then please let me know what your setup is -- i.e., theme, language, and anything else you think might be causing it.  My hope is to insert a line of code into the theme file that defines the bug (intermittent misspelled word color) to be the same color as the regular text -- so when it changes colors, we do not notice it.  That way, only the squiggly red line will disappear -- which would probably be the best we can hope for with ST2.  The most recent nightly build has the same issue as the last stable release.

There is now a viable workaround -- a spell check alternative.

https://github.com/phyllisstein/CheckBounce