On 16 May 2006, Georg Dahn wrote: > Hi! > > --- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The commmand :SpellCheck gives "Not an editor command" and \ss does > > nothing. I do have ispell in place. > > Obviously, there is no editor command "SpellCheck" and you don't need > ispell, since Vim has an internal spell checker. Just do > > :h spell > > and read the manual. > > > I'm sure I'm missing something important in the help file but if > > someone can point me to the right place I'd be grateful. > > Set your language with > > :set spelllang=en > > (or whatever language you want). With > > :set spell > > you turn spell checking on and with > > :set nospell > > you turn it off again. If the dictionary of your language is not > available, just follow the dialogues to download it. > > Best wishes, Georg > > Thanks for the clarification. These commands work fine, which is what I was looking for. But ":h spell" produces information only about vimspell and vimspell commands. It does not give the information you supplied. I still don't see how you are supposed to locate that.
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