cga2000 wrote:
I sometimes need to write text in other languages such as French, Spanish and occasionally German or Italian. ..snip..I would like to do this in Vim. Unfortunately I only have a US keyboard.
Have you considered EasyAccents.vim? http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=451 It doesn't use the spelling checker in vim 7.0, but it accepts a' a` a^ a:etc to generate accented characters. Easy to turn on and off, too: \eza toggles.
Regards, Chip Campbell