HPR1948: Check Your Spelling in Vim

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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