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spell check

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Question

How to use spell checking in Vim?

Answer

:setlocal spell spelllang=en_us    (switch spell on)
:setlocal nospell    (switch spell off)
]s    (next misspelled word)
[s    (previous misspelled word)
zg    (the word is correct; add to word-list)
z=    (suggestion for the current word)
:spellr    (repeat the previous replacement everywhere)

Simple way: add the following lines to your .vimrc file:

"switch spell check on/off (grammar check)
setlocal spell spelllang=en_us      "let's use English by default
set nospell                         "by default, spell is off
map <F2> :set spell!<CR>

Then with <F2> you can switch on/off the spell check. Use gvim instead of vim, it'll underline the misspelled words in red. Right click on a word to get a list of possible corrections.