Spell Checking in VIM

Spell Checking in VIM

I recently discovered this neat feature that VIM have. So basically you can do a spell check on your document from within vim. You don't even need a plugin for this. It is a built in feature.

YouTube Tutorial : VIM built in feature: Spell checking

For this all you need is this command

:set spell!

After running this command if everything goes well words that vim thinks are incorrectly spelled will be highlighted in some way.

Now once the command is called, you can do certain things. And of course vim has some nice keybinding for them.:

Jump to highlighted word

You can jump to these highlighted words easily.

• go to next word ]s
• go to previous word [s]

Correct spelling

To see the suggestions for correct spelling press z=. Then choose the number from shown list. Followed by enter.

Good words and Wrong words

So vim for spell checking has a list of Good words. This list contains all the words that are regarded as spelled correctly. You can even add new words to this list. For this type zg and to undo this zug

Similarly vim has a Wrong word list. They are treated as misspelled. And again you can add new words to this list with zw and undo with zuw. So that from next time these words will be highlighted as well.

Note: Try not to keep a word in both good and wrong list. It is either good or bad; noting in between.