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- From: cpshelle@logos.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
- Subject: Re: Spell checker from inside vi
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- References: <1993Jan26.170105.4573@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:56:22 GMT
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- saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders) writes:
- > In article <C1HD54.Iv@news.udel.edu> william@bach.udel.edu (Wild William) writes:
- > >Is there a simple way to do spell checking on the current file from
- > >inside vi?
- > >
- > >i tried {!}spell but strange codes show up and it doesn't show any
- > >alternatives etc.
- >
- > I can pipe the lines through spell by going to the command line and typing
- > "1,$!spell", but unfortunately the output replaces all of your lines! Does
- > anybody know how to redirect the output to the bottom of the file you are
- > currently working on? This should be easy, but I don't know how to
- > do it.
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- Since my newsreader uses ".article" for its followup buffer (for
- example), I can just use ":!ispell .article", delete "1,G", and read the
- corrected file by ":r .article".
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