On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Dominique Pellé <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Something looks wrong with Vim English spelling dictionary. > > If I put the cursor on the D in "Director's" and press z= > in command mode, I get those spelling suggestions: > > 1 "Directors'" > 2 "Director¿s" > 3 "Directors" > ...snip... > > The suggestion with inverted question mark is clearly wrong. > > I can reproduce it with: > > $ echo "Director's" | vim -u NONE -c 'set spell|norm z=' - > > It seems to happen for any words followed by apostrophe s. > Here are the suggestion for "It's": > 1 "At's" > 2 "Id's" > 3 "It¿s" > 4 "Its" > > I'm using Vim-7.4.898 (huge) on xubuntu-14.04.3 with en_US.UTF-8 > locale. > > Bug does not happen if I use Vim-7.4.52 shipped with xubuntu-14.04.3: > > Doing a bisection, I found that bug was introduced in this checkin: > > commit ca63501fbcd1cf9c8aa9ff12c093c95b62a89ed7 > Author: Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Sep 25 20:34:21 2015 +0200 > > Update various runtime files. > > That change updated runtime/spell/en.utf-8.spl among other files, > but since no change was made to runtime/spell/en/main.aap, > it might be an older change in Vim that introduced the bug and > nobody noticed it until runtime/spell/en.utf-8.spl was recreated. > > I tried to re-create the English spelling dictionary myself but > the aap recipe fails to download the zip file: > > $ cd vim/runtime/spell/en > $ aap > Aap: Attempting download of > "http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/en_US.zip"; > Aap: Error in recipe "/home/pel/sb/vim/runtime/spell/en/main.aap" > line 60: fetch failed for "['en_US.zip']" > Aap: All messages are in the logfile: > /home/pel/sb/vim/runtime/spell/en/AAPDIR/log > > So the location where to download the English dictionaries > needs to be updated. I'm not sure which dictionary is meant > to be used here for English. It also does not explain why the > English dictionary got broken by > ca63501fbcd1cf9c8aa9ff12c093c95b62a89ed7 > and why it was updated in the first place. > > Regards > Dominique > Hostname ftp.services.openoffice.org seems not to exist anymore. OOo was bought by Oracle, remember? and the latter is a closed-shop corporation. If LibreOffice is installed on your system, maybe you already have the en.utf8.spl somewhere in the libreoffice directory tree; and if not, maybe you can either install the LOo package or get the file on their site somewhere.
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