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Friday April 02, 2004
11:28 AM

mutt/vim Spell Checking E-mail as You Type

[ #18177 ]
Casey posted in his journal about forgetting to spell check after composing his e-mail. I broke down a couple months ago and went through the some of the top vim scripts on vim.org to see if I could find a decent spell checker.

Well I found one called vimspell.vim and this is how I implemented it only to auto spell check my e-mail as I type and not any old text document I open up (which got REALLY anoying)

  1. grab vimspell.vim
  2. mkdir ~/.mutt
  3. cp vimspell.vim ~/.mutt/.
  4. vim ~/.mutt/vimrc # should only contain the following 5 lines

    source ~/.vimrc
    source ~/.mutt/vimspell.vim
    highlight SpellErrors ctermfg=Red cterm=underline term=reverse
    set filetype=mail " correct syntax highlighting
    set textwidth=72  " wrap at column 72

  5. In your ~/.muttrc or (in my case ~/.mutt/mutt.settings) tell vim to use the new ~/.mutt/vimrc file:

    set editor = "vim -u ~/.mutt/vimrc"

and presto you should have spell checking as you type.

UPDATE - fixed line wrapping issue with long "highlight..." ~/.mutt/vimrc line


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  • Line 3 of ~/.mutt/vimrc should not have the + in it. The line should be:
    highlight SpellErrors ctermfg=Red cterm=underline term=reverse
    • the "+" was to denote that it should have been continued on the previous line. I'm just not proficent in markup to make the darn thing not wrap
      --

      -biz-

  • I also use vim, mutt and vimspell.vim. Somehow my configuration is much less complicated. First, I have this abbreviation defined, which completely avoids vimspell.vim:

    cab aspe :w<CR>:!aspell -e -c  %<CR>:e<CR><CR>

    That allows me to type ":aspe" and have the current document checked by 'aspell' as an e-mail message. This is a solution on it's own.

    I use 'vimspell.vim' to have spell check as I type. It seems to just check the document 'every once in a while'. However, it doesn'

  • Hi, I've followed the instructions to get on-the-fly spell checking working within Mutt, using Aspell and the vimspell.vim script, but with no luck. One thing could be that it's been a year since these instructions were posted and a lot has changed since then. Any ideas if these still apply? Thanks.
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