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From: s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis])
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Rehash Needed Re: calling spell checker from within VI
Message-ID: <7044@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 19 Dec 90 00:35:03 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.195857.14825@informix.com> <1990Dec18.075224.25831@convex.com>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>From the keyboard of billd@infmx.informix.com (William Daul):
>:Could someone send me the essence of the discussion a few weeks ago
>:regarding calling a spell checker program from within VI?  

[ lotsa stuff deleted ]

>The truth is I don't use Meta-s much anymore because I've
>got news and notes and MH all rigged up to pop me into ispell
>when I'm done editing a posting of some sort.

now thats more like it.. if you have ispell a simple macro looks something
like...

:map <insert favorite key here> :w!^M:!ispell %^M:e!^M^M

and if you don't have ispell.. tell your favorite Sysop to get it for you
:-)  it really leaves poor ol' spell for dead.

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Romulis [Stephen Riehm]	         Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
					    (124 Latrobe St., Melbourne.)
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au				       Australia.

The opinions expressed here must be mine as I don't have an employer :-(
Any kind soul believing that they may be able to help me with this
slightly embarrassing problem please send email to..........
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au for full resume and application.
Will re-locate if I can afford the transport!!