On 23 Mar 2011, at 13:51, Ben Schmidt wrote: > On 23/03/11 11:18 PM, Barrie Stott wrote: >> Is it possible to have more than a single form of spell checking? Can I use >> en_gb for business letters and a new one, asdf, say, for computer >> documentation, for example? >> >> Reading about spellfile gives the impression that more than a single >> spellfile can be used but my current attempt is failing because I don't know >> how to set up an empty asdf. Within MacVim I ran the command >> :setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb,asdf >> and got an error message: >> Cannot find spell file for "asdf" in utf-8 >> >> I 'touch'ed ~/.vim/spell/asdf.utf-8.add and got the message: >> Warning: Cannot find word list "comp.utf-8.spl" or "comp.ascii.spl" >> and then touched ~/.vim/spell/asdf.utf-8.spl getting the message: >> Error detected while processing /Users/gbs/.vim/spell/comp.utf-8.spl: >> E757: This does not look like a spell file >> >> Can I have several forms of spell checking where some are home-grown and, if >> so, how? > > :help spell-mkspell
Thanks for this, Ben. I'd read it before but there's so much information that it didn't register with me that .spl is a compiled format. I've now compiled ~/.vim/spell/asdf.utf-8.spl from a virtually empty asdf.utf-8.add and did a bit of spell checking. It seems to work but the new additions were put in the directory from which I invoked mvim on the file to check. I reckon I'm close now. One thing still bothers me though. Why would I want to use gw? Who wants to keep 'wrong' words? I'm grateful for your help; it's amazing how useful the words ':help spell-mkspell' can be! Barrie. -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
