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.

Anthony

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