Vim spell punctuation for ⸮

Question

I am finding myself using the point d'irony (⸮) more and more. However, vim spelling does not recognise it as a valid punctuation character.

How can I add it to vim so that the spelling works?

According to the [vim documentation](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/spell.html), you need to regenerate/modify the spelling dictionaries of vim to change the "word characters". — jofel, Sep 02 '14 at 13:17

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 20:32

One way to solve this problem is to add the character directly to vim as a defined punctuation mark. The way you do this is modify the vim source file, mbyte.c, and then recompile vim. This file is located in the main /src trunk (see https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/browse/src/mbyte.c). The function you want to modify starts like this:

/*
* Get class of a Unicode character.
* 0: white space
* 1: punctuation
* 2 or bigger: some class of word character.
*/
int
utf_class(c)
int c;
{
   /* sorted list of non-overlapping intervals */
   static struct clinterval
   {
      unsigned int first;
      unsigned int last;
      unsigned int class;
   } classes[] =
      {
         {0x037e, 0x037e, 1}, /* Greek question mark */
         {0x0387, 0x0387, 1}, /* Greek ano teleia */
         {0x055a, 0x055f, 1}, /* Armenian punctuation */
         {0x0589, 0x0589, 1}, /* Armenian full stop */
         ... etc and so on

You add your character to this list and it will be treated as punctuation after you recompile.

in which case you probably should report a feature request to `vim` with the proposed code-change, as otherwise your change will not survive the next upgrade... — umläute, Sep 11 '14 at 08:33
This provided the information for me to open a bug so that the fix was trivial. Thank you. — Sardathrion - against SE abuse, Sep 15 '14 at 12:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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As umläute suggested in a comment, to Tyler Durden's answer, I opened a feature request/bug report issue 258 in vim. The fix is in patch 7.4.444.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Sep 15 '14 at 12:52

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