On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:32:23 +0200 Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 20:20 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Unless anyone can come up with a good reason not to, I'm seriously
| > considering masking then removing app-vim/{vimspell,vimirc}.
| > 
| > vimspell is a nice idea, but it's hideously buggy. vim7 supports
| > native spellchecking which actually works, so development on the
| > various plugin spelling related tools has effectively stopped.
| 
| What about leaving vimspell at least until a more 'safe' release of
| vim7 is out?  Some of us do not yet use vim7, and I at least wont bug
| about issues with vimspell ....

Hrm. The thing is, vimspell will break text entry when editing unicode
files. There's a patch floating around, but it's wrong, and with vim7
doing a far better job of spellchecking I strongly doubt anyone's ever
going to fix vimspell properly...

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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