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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Spell-checking a buffer in vi. Need help.
Keywords: vi, spell
Message-ID: <2236@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 1 Apr 89 01:01:17 GMT
References: <1856@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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rostamia@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
\To spell-check the current buffer in vi I do the following:

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\The net effect is that I obtain a list of my misspelled words appended to
\the original buffer.

\How do we automate this procedure?  It seems reasonable to bind the
\4-step sequence above to one key, say to ^A, by:

\map ^A  1G "byG !Gspell^M "bP

\where ^M represents a carriage return.
\But somehow this does not work.
\...

Well, I haven't figured out (yet) why this doesn't work (the `!' seems to be
the cause of trouble: map ^A 1G"byG works fine), but I've got a workaround:

	map	^A	:w^M:$r!spell %^M

However, undoing a `^A' reveals another bug: the last line of the original
buffer is doubled! Further undoing leads to `interesting' effects too...
Puzzle for the reader: Who is the connection between vi and csh?
Hint: check recent postings on csh quirks.
Disclaimer: vi's my editor, csh's my shell (sh's for shell scripts).
-- 
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