Enchant-based on-the-fly spell-checker for Vim text editor
Vim 7.0 introduced excellent spell-checking features which made external spell-checker plugins pretty much obsolete. Unfortunately not all languages can be supported through Vim’s dictionary format. Either the language is morphologically too complex or better custom solutions exist already for some languages—solutions which are not compatible with Vim’s spelling checker. Finnish, for example, is a language which doesn’t currently benefit from Vim’s spell-checking features.
This plugin (Vimchant) provides a simple but fast on-the-fly spelling checker which uses Enchant as its back-end program. Enchant is a spell-checker library and utility included in modern GNU/Linux systems. Enchant itself is only a front-end for many different spell-checkers, including Voikko, Zemberek, Hunspell, Hspell, Uspell, Myspell, Aspell and Ispell. All the spell-checkers and languages which can be supported through Enchant are available to Vim through this plugin.
Manual for Vimchant is included, just type:
:help vimchant.txt
The most interesting commands are \ss (spell-checker on/off) and \sl
(change language). The default interval period before running the
spell-check is rather long (4 seconds). To make the spell-checker
respond faster (1 second, for example) add the following line to your
Vim configuration file:
set updatetime=1000
See the included Vim manual for more info.
You enchant likely throws a warning that gets interpreted as a list of misspelled words. Run enchant -l or enchant-2 -l (depending on which version you have installed) to check. See the relevant issue for more information.
Current maintainer: Théo Friberg <[email protected]>
Author of the original code: Teemu Likonen <[email protected]>
OpenPGP key: 6965F03973F0D4CA22B9410F0F2CAE0E07608462
License: Creative Commons CC0 (public domain dedication)