Has spell been turned off by something? If you enter :verbose set spell?
does it tell you if some plugin has been messing with your spell settings FWIW: I tried this and it worked. Opena clean instance of vim, :set spell, <insert>this is a tset<esc> (observe highlighting), :set ft=mail (observe highlighting still present). Max > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:38 PM > To: Tom Purl > Cc: vim@vim.org > Subject: Re: Vim7: Spell checking not working with ft=mail > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:01:04PM -0500, Tom Purl wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > > > No, I wasn't quoting anything... > > > > Could you post an example of the text that isn't being spell-checked? > Sure, here goes the whole file: > > SNIP --- > this is a tset. > SNIP --- > > when ft=mail is off, "this" is marked blue because it doesn't start with > a capital 't' and "tset" is red, as it is obviously the victim of a > typographic error. With ft=mail on nothing shows up. > > Leslie > > -- > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83 > http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/
