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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: spelling from within vi
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.005405.461@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 7 Nov 90 00:54:05 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.153710.7865@cec1.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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In article <1990Oct31.153710.7865@cec1.wustl.edu> abed@saturn.wustl.edu (Abed Hammoud) writes:
>
>	Is there a way I can use the unix spelling program ispell
>	or spell from within vi. if yes and some body have done it
>	please let me know how...

I usually use :1,.$!spell.  This replaces the buffer with your spelling
errors, but u[ndo] restores the buffer.  You can also say !}spell to do
a paragraph.  I suppose you could get real fancy with macros, but this
is simple and does the job for most of the cases I run into.
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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