Motion key for next highlighted item?

Question

Using the normal spell-check mechanism in vim one can jump from one misspelling to the next using ]s. Sadly vim's spell-check is completely useless for Turkish. Using the vimchant plugin that hooks into the Enchant spelling system (which in turn gets its Turkish from hunspell)* it is actually possible to get Turkish spell checking enabled in a vim buffer. However the fun and games seems to end with highlighting mismatches. The words are highlighted in the buffer but there seems to be no other smarts.

I can live without automatic suggestions, replacements etc. I can spell in Turkish when I stop to think about it. But navigating through a document fixing mistakes is painful. Even using paragraph, sentence and word motion commands it is still tedious.

Is there a way I can setup a binding to jump to the next item in the spelling mistake highlight group?

_{* Yes, this is turtles all the way down.}

Answer 1

I will only give a beginning of an answer. First, because the vimchant plugin uses matchadd to highlight items, you can not (to my knowledge) search for SpellBad highlighted items.

One way would be to change that line to

:execute 'syntax match SpellBad "\C\V\<' . word . '\>"'

instead. Then, you can search for bad-spelling in your buffer with:

:echo synIDattr(synID(line("."),col("."),1),"name")

and moving the cursor from a word to the next one, until the result is 'SpellBad'. Automate that, and you have your answer.

Another way (better, I think), would be again to slightly modify the plugin - simply save the local variable spelling_errors to a global one (e.g. g:spelling_errors) on the following line. Then, create a function (can be in your vimrc) that searches forward, from the current cursor position, for any of the words in that list (or, alternatively, move from word to word until it finds one that belongs to the list).

I am now on Windows, and don't have an enchant executable, so I can't help more.