Using spellchecking with VIM

Starting with 7.x, vim integrates a powerful spell checker. You can enable it by either adding it to your .vimr or setting as toggable command.

:setlocal spell

You basically need to know about:

• ]s — move to the next misspelled word
• [s — move to the previous misspelled word
• zg — add a word to the dictionary
• zug — undo the addition of a word to the dictionary
• z= — view spelling suggestions for a misspelled word
  • One useful feature is that you can append [n] before the command and it will automatically select the nth option from suggestion. If you do lot of writing that invovles spell checking, I will suggest that you map the three characters to something more convenient. 90% of the time, you want to use 1z=.