On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:09 PM, David Patrick Henderson wrote: > On 08 Jun 2011, at 14:48, Eric Weir wrote: > >> Checking the help on spell, one of the comments was that it loads the entire >> dictionary, apparently a large file, into memory, and that it can slow >> things down. I don't work with very big files. Max would be 15 to 20 pages >> of plain text. I assume having spell on all the time is not going to be a >> problem for me. [I have two Gb of RAM.] > > If you find it to be problematic, you turn it on and off in the vim command > line: > :set(local) (no)spell > > Probably better to make the spelling checker local to the current buffer > using ‘setlocal’
Thanks, David -- on both counts. At Tim's suggestion, I have the following in my .vimrc. au FileType txt setlocal spell spelllang=en_us Will the setlocal in that take care of it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- 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