Spell Check in Vim
Avoid spelling mistakes when editing prose in Markdown files and Git commit messages.
Configure
In ~/.vimrc
:
" Disable spelling by default, enable per-filetype
autocmd BufRead setlocal nospell
In ~/.vim/ftplugin/{gitcommit,markdown}.vim
:
setlocal complete+=kspell
setlocal spell
See highlighted misspellings
When I edit a Markdown file
or Git commit with git commit -v
,
Vim will highlight misspelled words.
Move to the next misspelled word with ]s
or move backwards with [s
:
Add words to the dictionary
When the cursor is over a misspelled word,
type zg
("good word") to
add the word to the spell file.
By default,
the spell file is located at
~/.vim/spell/en.utf-8.add
.
Word suggestions
When the cursor is over a misspelled word,
get suggestions for the word with z=
:
Tab completion
The words in the spell file will show up in tab completion: