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From: joseph@hpuplca.HP.COM (	Joseph Hohl )
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Re: spelling from within vi
Message-ID: <2230002@hpuplca.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 15:38:50 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.005405.461@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Pleasanton Ca. Sales
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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
> ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp			rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us
> ----------

I use the following entry in my .exrc to use ispell:

	map S :w!^M:!ispell %^M:e!^^M^M           ! The ^Ms are Cntl-Ms

This will save your file, run ispell on it and read the corrected file
back into your buffer with a S from command mode in vi.

Joseph