> I'm using Vim with a filetype of mail right now, and it's able to do
> on-the-fly spell-checking :)
>
> A lot of filetypes have special provisions where they turn
> spell-checking off in certain areas that you don't want to spell-check.
> I think that the mail filetype turns off spell checking if what you're
> text is after an arrow (>, >>, etc.). Is that what you're doing?
Whoops, it's too bad that Vim doesn't yet come with on-the-fly grammar
checking :) here's what I meant to say in the second-to-last sentence
in the above paragraph:
I think that the mail filetype turns off spell checking if what you're
typing is after an arrow (>, >>, etc.).
>
> HTH!
>
> Tom Purl
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Vim 7.0.10 and wanted to try out the new on-the-fly
>> spell checking. It works great, but as soon as I set ft=mail, it stops
>> working (no highlighting anymore).
>>
>> Any clues why?
>>
>> Leslie
>>
>> --
>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83
>> http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/
>>
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