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Turning on spell checking in VIM

Prerequisites

You should have a basic understanding of the vim editor. To understand its basic concepts, you can check out our tutorial, Introduction to VIM

Spell checking

To enable the spell checking feature of vim, simply type in the console:

:set spell

This should make vim underline all the words that are have incorrect spelling. For information about related features (such as customizing the used dictionary), use

:help spell

Only plain text supported.

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