NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/unix/question/16043

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Subject: Re: Spell checker from inside vi
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Date: 28 Jan 93 15:21:12 GMT
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From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (0000-Admin(0000)):
> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Brian E. Saunders) writes:
> |> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Wild William) writes:
> |> >Is there a simple way to do spell checking on the current file from
> |> >inside vi?
...
> |> 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.
...
> You can try the following on the command line of vi:
> :!spell % >> %
>
> This will append the output of the command "spell" to the eof.
> The "%" means the current file that is being edited.

Or even simpler,
    :w
    :$r!spell %
will (first) write the current version of the file to disk and then
append the output of "spell" on the current file to the end of the
file being edited.

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