vim spell checker?

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Is there a way to spell check a file using vim?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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If you have a spell checker installed on your system, vim will usually find it. If not you will need to install ispell, aspell, hunspell or a similar system as well as support files for the language you want to check.

:set spell

Here is an answer on StackOverflow with keybindings and also a quick little tutorial for usage.

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answered May 09 '11 at 14:26

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Also, you can add the `:set spell` in ~/.vimrc file, so that it will be effective for all the file. – SHW May 09 '11 at 15:04
`quick little tutorial` link is dead at the time of writing. – Herpes Free Engineer May 17 '18 at 14:14

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '11 at 16:21

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If you want to toggle spellcheck on and off, you can add something like the following to your .vimrc:

map <F4> :setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb<CR>
map <F5> :set nospell<CR>

answered May 09 '11 at 16:21

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