On 2007-10-05, Rem P Roberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, ispell works well enough (although I have heard that aspell > is better), but you have motivated me to look into vim. I have > become rather attached to vi, and have taken some pains to > learn to use it. Unfortunately, there is now only vim and vim6 > in the FreeBSD ports collection.
This shouldn't be a problem. Vim in 'compatible' mode is a very good implementation of standard vi. I started using vim when HP rolled HP-UX to a new version that contained a vi with more bugs than I could tolerate. I used only the pure vi features at first, then gradually learned the vim enhancements. As for using ispell with vi, I used to use the following script to run ispell on buffers or selected regions of buffers. I was very happy with it, but now I find vim's built-in spell checker much more convenient. ----------------------------- cut here ----------------------------- #!/bin/sh #ispell-filter # # Ives Aerts, ives AT lynch DOT sonytel DOT be # # This script can be used to run ispell on stdin, returning the # result through stdout. # # It can be used from VI or VIM like this # :%! $HOME/bin/ispell-filter # # Or map it to a key sequence in .exrc and .vimrc # In .vimrc add a <cr> to the end # map v :%! $HOME/bin/ispell-filter # # cat > /tmp/tmp.$$ ispell $* /tmp/tmp.$$ < /dev/tty > /dev/tty cat /tmp/tmp.$$ rm -f /tmp/tmp.$$ ----------------------------- cut here ----------------------------- Regards, Gary
