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created December 3, 2001 · complexity basic · author Carl Mueller · version 6.0

Suppose you would like to use Ispell to check a word or region that you've visually highlighted. The following macro will do the job. Just type Shift-Insert while in visual mode.

vnoremap <S-Insert> <C-C>`<v`>s<Space><Esc>mq:e ispell.tmp<CR>i<C-R>"<Esc>:w<CR>:! xterm -bg ivory -fn 10x20 -e ispell %<CR><CR>:e %<CR><CR>ggVG<Esc>`<v`>s<Esc>:bwipeout!<CR>:!rm ispell.tmp*<CR>`q"_s<C-R>"<Esc>

This is based on Chip Campbell's macro which uses Ispell on the whole file (in normal mode).

noremap <S-Insert> :w<CR>:! xterm -bg ivory -fn 10x20 -e ispell %<CR><Space>:e %<CR><Space>

Comments

If you replace the xterm/ispell part with:

c:\winnt\system32\command.com /c ispell %"

The tip will work with ispell on windows 2000. Command.com is required as cmd.com does not support ANSI.sys (see ispell docs for more info).

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