hpr1948 :: Check Your Spelling in Vim

Frank summarizes how to use spellcheck in VIM

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Hosted by Frank Bell on Wednesday, 2016-01-20 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Vim, spellcheck. Comments: 2.

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Part of the series: Vim Hints.

Various contributors lead us on a journey of discovery of the Vim (and vi) editors.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

https://www.vim.org/about.php

Frank Bell describes how to check your spelling in the Vim editor and to create your own wordlist.

Frank's ~/.vimrc file:

set ruler laststatus=2 number title hlsearch
syntax on
set textwidth=80
set spell spelllang=en_us
set spellfile=$HOME/.Vim/spell/en.utf-8.add

Illustrations:

Text file in Vim with spellcheck enabled:

Vim "choose the right word" list:

Links:

• Excellent introductory tutorial: https://thejakeharding.com/tutorial/2012/06/13/using-spell-check-in-vim.html
• Vim's own documentation: https://Vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/spell.html
• Linux Voice Vim tutorial (PDF): https://www.linuxvoice.com/issues/001/vim.pdf
• Linux Voice Vim video: https://www.linuxvoice.com/learn-to-love-vim/

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Comment #1 posted on 2016-01-22 21:58:56 by b-yeezi

Thanks a lot

This episode exemplifies what I love most about hpr and vim. I've been using vim for about 2 years now and lean new things weekly. I've already added what I learned here in my daily workflow. Thanks.

Comment #2 posted on 2016-01-23 20:09:17 by Frank

I'm really glad you found helpful. Thanks.

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