*spell.txt* For Vim version 7.1a. Last change: 2007 Apr 22
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
Spell checking *spell*
1. Quick start |spell-quickstart|
2. Remarks on spell checking |spell-remarks|
3. Generating a spell file |spell-mkspell|
4. Spell file format |spell-file-format|
{Vi does not have any of these commands}
Spell checking is not available when the |+syntax| feature has been disabled
at compile time.
Note: There also is a vimspell plugin. If you have it you can do ":help
vimspell" to find about it. But you will probably want to get rid of the
plugin and use the 'spell' option instead, it works better.
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1. Quick start *spell-quickstart*
This command switches on spell checking: >
:setlocal spell spelllang=en_us
This switches on the 'spell' option and specifies to check for US English.
The words that are not recognized are highlighted with one of these:
SpellBad word not recognized |hl-SpellBad|
SpellCap word not capitalised |hl-SpellCap|
SpellRare rare word |hl-SpellRare|
SpellLocal wrong spelling for selected region |hl-SpellLocal|
Vim only checks words for spelling, there is no grammar check.
If the 'mousemodel' option is set to "popup" and the cursor is on a badly
spelled word or it is "popup_setpos" and the mouse pointer is on a badly
spelled word, then the popup menu will contain a submenu to replace the bad
word. Note: this slows down the appearance of the popup menu. Note for GTK:
don't release the right mo