created by

Charles Campbell

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syntax

description

There are a fair number of ispell/aspell based spelling checkers out there -- but engspchk isn't one of them.  The engspchk source uses Vim's native syntax highlighting to catch spelling errors.  An optional external program, agrep, may be used to suggest alternative spellings. With the optional Webster's 1913 dictionary, <engspchk.vim> now provides over 187192 words! Engspchk is no longer English-only: it supports multiple languages.  You can tell it what language (dictionary) to use by either renaming it (ex. engspchk.vim -> frspchk.vim for French) or by specifying the variable g:spchklang (ex. let g:spchklang="ger" for German).  See http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#vimlinks_scripts for some dictionaries: currently French, German, and Spanish are available. The engspchk s/w includes maps for jumping to the next and preceding spelling errors, alternative spellings, and for saving words either permanently in a custom dictionary or just for the current session. To check your spelling, simply apply the English Check map:     \ec and your spelling errors will show up highlighted in white-on-red.  If you want to change languages, just set g:spchklang appropriately and \ec will load that language's dictionary.  The backslash is actually using <mapleader>, so you can customize the backslash to whatever you want. It will work with some cooperating syntax files to check out spelling in comments, including:     amiga bib cpp dcl     ksh   sh  vim     bash  c   csh fortran latex tex If your favorite computer language isn't on that list, perhaps you can talk that language's maintainer into making it engspchk compatible. More Features: v27: New features for the Vim-based spelling checker!     * Maps to remove words from the user dictionary       (\eT, \eS).     * If g:spchk_autonext exists, then \et, \es, and       \ea (if a word is selected) will automatically       do a \en jump to the next spelling error.     * \en and \ep will now examine words inside folds,       opening the fold as necessary to display spelling       errors. v23:     Can handle English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch,     Hungarian -- just set up a dictionary and set a     g:spchklang variable!  Native vim code, no external     programs necessary v19:     Now contains: engspchk.vim engspchk.dict     engspchk.wb engspchk.txt Over 187192 words!     non-English support menus, documentation, English     punctuation checking (g:spchkpunc) Alternative Spelling Checkers     SpellChecker - Ajit Thakkar        - syntax    - vimscript#499     vimspell     - Mathieu Clabaut     - [ia]spell - vimscript#465     spellcheck   - Matthias Veit       - ispell    - vimscript#131     spell        - Yegappan Lakshmanan - spell     - vimscript#232     vim-spell    - Luc Hermite         - [ia]spell - vimscript#135 Thank you for ranking engspchk!

install details

*) gunzip engspchk.tar.gz    cd $HOME/.vim   (or cd ...\vimfiles)    tar -oxvf engspchk.tar 1) Put <engspchk.vim> into your .vim/plugin or _vimfiles/plugin directory 2) Put <engspchk.dict> and <engspchk.wb> into some directory 2) Set up an environment variable called CVIMSYN which points to the directory used in step (1).  Your custom dictionary will appear here too if you save any words. -or- specify the path with   let g:cvimsyn="..path.." into your <.vimrc> 3) Enable help in vim    :helptags ~/.vim/doc        (unix)    :helptags ...vimfiles\doc   (windows) 4) Read help (:help engspchk), especially if you'd also like to have agrep (which enables suggesting alternative spellings)

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
engspchk.tar.gz	28	26-Nov-2002	6.0	Charles Campbell	engspchk now searches even harder for its dictionaries: If        g:cvimsyn exists, it is tried Otherwise $CVIMSYN is tried Otherwise each path on the runtimepath is tried Otherwise quit with an error message "Trying" involves checking if the spelling dictionary is filereadable(); if not, then if filereadable(expand()) works.  If a combination works, that path is set into g:cvimsyn. Support for v5.x of vim has now been dropped.
engspchk.tar.gz	2.09	30-Jan-2002	5.7	Charles Campbell	Initial upload