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From: rob@b15.INGR.COM (Rob Lemley)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: spelling from within vi
Message-ID: <1780@b15.INGR.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 90 06:58:37 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.005405.461@investor.pgh.pa.us> <2230002@hpuplca.HP.COM>
Organization: Intergraph Huntsville
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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 like the following macros because they don't do any writing out of the 
file you are currently editing.

A very simple macro to do this is (where ^M is entered in vi as
control-V followed by control-M, this enters a literal carriage-return
in the macro):

	map K :%w !spell^M

To add your own list of spelling words to this (System V, R3):

	map K :%w !spell +$HOME/.spell^M

To save the spell output at your current postion in the buffer:

	map K :%w !spell>/usr/tmp/$LOGNAME.spell

You can put these macros in your .exrc file.

Rob
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