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Tagged with spelling or spell-checking
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Remove word from dictionary
I'm using gvim:
$ gvim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Feb 16 2017 06:36:51)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-329
Compiled by Homebrew
I was editing the following ...
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How can I undo `zg`?
I'm checking spelling in a document. I find a misspelled word and intend to press z= to get suggestions, but I accidentally press zg, marking this as a "good" spelling.
How can I undo that?
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Autocorrect spelling mistakes
I've turned on spellcheck with
:set spell spelllang=en_us
I can now correct the spelling of a word by typing 1z= (that is, choose the 1st spelling correction (z=)).
How can I make this ...
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How can I make vim download spell files?
When setting spelllang for the first time, I was prompted to auto-download the appropriate spell file. Somehow I aborted the process due to unclear instructions, when it asked me, into which directory ...
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How to enable spell check for certain file types?
I flip between Ruby and Markdown files a lot. Is there a way that I can have set spell automatically set when I open a *.md file, but not when I open a *.rb one?
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Vim cannot find medical spell files
Problem specification
I would love to have a medical spell dictionary in vim.
Currently, I have a lot of medical terms in my own personal English dictionary right now. However, using an official ...
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Ignore URLs and email addresses in spell file
Is there a way to have vim not flag HTTP URLs and email addresses as spelling errors? Or, more generally, a way to list regexes of valid spellings?
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How can I have Vim sound the terminal bell when I misspell a word?
I do a fair amount of transcription in which I type at 100+ wpm without looking at the screen. I think it would be useful if Vim could give me some sort of audible cue if the spell-checker has just ...
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How can I use Vim's spellcheck with ‘smart quotes’?
There are the "normal" straight quotes:
' "
And you have the angled "smart quotes":
‘ ’ “ ”
Vim's spellcheck works with "straight" quotes, but not angeled quotes, so this is considered "wrong":
It’s ...
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How to share Vim spellchecking additions between multiple machines?
I use Vim's spellchecking feature. Given that I work with many technical terms and LaTeX commands, I tend to add many them to my personal dictionary in ~/.vim/spell/en.utf-8.add.
I would like to share ...
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How can I make the spellcheck selection window allow me to type my own correction?
When doing spell checking, keying z=, brings up a selection list, as shown bellow.
As you can see the correct spelling; "i.e." is not shown as any of the options.
I would like to enhance this menu, ...
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Spell mistakes have weird coloring
I am using spell checker in vim, and I find one feature very annoying: errors are being highlighted with some weird color, which is nowhere to be found in gnome terminal settings:
I would like to ...
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How to configure spell to ignore some environments in LaTeX
Is there a way to tell vim not to spell-check part of a latex document?
For instance, code block using the minted environment or URLs in \url{}?
(I'm not sure it's relevant for spell checking but I'm ...
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Command to loop through spelling suggestions
I mapped zz to 1z=, which is great most of the time, but every now and then the first suggestion isn't the right one.
So I'd like to keep repeating zz (or .) to cycle through the other suggestions.
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What is the difference between red and cyan in spell check highlighting?
My Problem
I have added the following to my .vimrc to enable spell checks:
" Spell Checking
set spelllang=en_us
set spellfile=$HOME/en.utf-8.add
set spell
Giving the following highlight:
Both "...
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Ignore capital letter rule when word is preceded by a shortcut
I want to use the spelling rule: begin first word in a sentence with capital letter, but Vim faultily recognises the end of a sentence when I use shortcuts that end with a dot.
The problem exists ...
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How can I check spelling in HTML attributes?
Vim spell check feature works great in most cases - it is even smart enough to distinguish code from literals and comments in most languages. However I have problems with HTML spell check:
<div ...
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How can I tell vim to ignore spelling errors inside quotes?
If I'm editing a text file with :set spell, is there any way to
have vim not check words within the boundaries of certain characters against the word list? I want to be able to write things like ...
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How do I mark a word as rare?
Vim has the commands zg and zw to mark a word as good (correctly spelled) or bad (incorrectly spelled), respectively. Is there a similar command to mark a word as rarely-used?
(It’s possible to ...
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Can I make Vim's spell check not syntax-aware, and check everything?
The Vim spell checker is code-aware; it uses the syntax file to disable spell checking for the parts where it usually doesn't make any sense.
However, on occasion I do want to spell-check this. ...
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Count only words for which Spell is enabled?
I want to count the words in my buffers, but for TeX files, for instance, a lot of words (e.g., commands) shouldn't be counted. I'm aware that there are scripts that do this specifically for LaTeX, ...
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Change color of misspelled words in vim-lexical
How can I change the color that is used to highlight misspelled words in vim-lexical?
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Converting .spl spell files
VIM spell files seem to be in some binary format. Is it possible (and easy) to convert one back to a plain text word list?
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Deactivate SpellCap-Check after Abbreviation [duplicate]
Vim highlight SpellCap errors after every fullstop. Also after abbreviations:
i.e. without
Here without gets the SpellCap highlight. This is obious no error, and renders the SpellCap function rather ...
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Warning when opening commit message with Neovim
I've been using Neovim for a few days with no problem, so I decided to switch my git config to use Neovim instead of vim. Here's what I put in my global .gitconfig:
[core]
editor = nvim
And here'...
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How do I allow sentences to begin with lowercase letters?
My spellchecker wants me to begin every sentence with a capital letter, i.e., it underlines lowercase characters after full stop. Can I make it stop?
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Turn off Vim spellcheck in custom region
I have the following definitions in a .tex file preamble:
\newcommand{\beq}{\begin{eqnarray}}
\newcommand{\eeq}{\end{eqnarray}}
If I then use \beq and \eeq to define an equation array region, spell ...
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Adding words to one of many spellfiles
Say I am mixing English and German in my documents and have my spelllang variable set accordingly. How do I indicate, when I want to mark a word as good, to which spellfile it is to be added?
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Make zG and zW persistent
Edit: I turned this into a little plugin. This is my first attempt at writing one and I have no idea what I'm doing, so any help is much appreciated. :)
Here it is: https://github.com/danielbmarques/...
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How can I spell check an entire buffer?
Is there a built-in command or plugin available to trigger spell checking over the entire current buffer, prompting me for each word it detects to either ignore, add to dictionary, or correct spelling?...
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How to disable spell check inside code blocks in markdown? [closed]
Code blocks (fenced with ` or ```) are bound to have words not correctly spelled and spell check warnings often get in the way of syntax highlighting. I still want spell check enabled for the rest of ...
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How to set a colorscheme that still shows spelling errors?
How to set a colorscheme that still shows spelling errors?
I am looking for two combined effects that I can acquire separately but not yet together.
Set Colorscheme alone: OK. If I want highlights ...
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vim shortcut for ignore spell-checked word
In Gvim there is an option upon rightclicking a highlighted word to ignore all such words. What is the shortcut for that?
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Correct all spelling mistakes in the document
I've turned on spellcheck with :set spell spelllang=en_us. Now there's a bunch of words highlighted in red, and I just want to correct them all to their closest matches.
How can I correct all ...
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How can I make Vim not use the entire screen for spelling suggestions?
If I type z= on a spelling suggestion it uses the entire screen. Is there any way to disable that?
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Spell-check blacklisting word sequences
I am a programmer and use Vim primarily for that, but I have found that enabling Vim's spell check is a somewhat useful feature to have just to help slightly incentivize cleaning up the parts of files ...
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Why does "thge" correct to "Chge" using spellcheck?
I was showing a friend the spell-check feature in Vim which I add activated by adding the lines setlocal spell and set spelllang=en_gb to my .vimrc. He did the same on his end and tried a few spell ...
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Disable spell checking for URLs in BibTeX
I would like to disable spell checking for the URLs in my BibTeX (.bib) files. I was able to disable spell checking for the citation keys (author-year or author+year) as follows:
autocmd FileType bib
\...
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How do I spellcheck TeX files using vim-lexical, skipping some command arguments but not others?
I use the vimtex plugin for TeX editing and vim-lexical for spell-checking.
This works generally fine, but there are several commands vim-lexical tries to spellcheck. For example, in \includepdf{...
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Spellcheck only a part of a word
(There might be an XY problem in the title, I let you judge.)
The default dictionary for French sets the (ASCII) hyphen - to be a word character, which is the right thing to do. The issue is that ...
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How can I use multiple spell files at the same time?
Based upon documentation there is explicitly a way to have multiple spell file for "spell" but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to use more than one spell file at the same time.
Under my ...
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Disabling spellchecker highlight
When activating the spellchecker (with :set spell spelllang=en_us for example), all incorrect words are highlighted. I'd prefer if they'd not be highlighted, but the spell checker to continue to work (...
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Is it possible to turn on spell-checking for only parts of buffers?
It seems that spell-checking in vim is normally enabled at a buffer level (set spell vs. set nospell). However, sometimes it would be useful to ignore certain parts of a buffer (for example, URLs in ...
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Generate new spell file from .aff & .dic
Im trying to generate a new spell lang file for Romanian, but using format before 1993 when new orthographic rules was implemented. To summarize before 1993 we wrote for eg: cînd and now we write ...
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Alert for repeated word in spell checking
According to :h spell
Vim only checks words for spelling, there is no grammar check.
It does however alert with a green wobbly line if a sentence begins with a small letter. Is there a way to have ...
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Can the spell checker be told to stop marking words with apostrophes as bad?
With the ascii apostrophe ', the spell checker defaults to treating words with a genetive s as bad; can that be remedied?
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How do I make Vim ask to download spellfiles without manually typing ":set spelllang=..."?
I have this in my Vim configuration file:
set spell
set spelllang=fr
When I start Vim, I get an error:
Warning: Cannot find word list "fr.utf-8.spl" or "fr.ascii.spl"
Press ENTER ...
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Figure out which dictionary is used when spell checking
At some point an update broke my vim's spell checking ability. This is always a good opportunity to review my .vimrc. I figured out that vim's spell checking abilities actually go far further then ...
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