From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!houxi!houxs!hansen
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Re: Is there another spell program out there?
Article-I.D.: houxs.141
Posted: Mon Jun  7 12:26:55 1982
Received: Tue Jun  8 02:33:16 1982

Gosling's emacs has had an interactive spelling checker available with it
(almost) since it came out. 

If you are a Vi fan, there was a set of vi macros published on the net last
year. Maybe it's time to republicize it. To use it, set:

EXINIT='map #1 Gi/\<^V^[A\>^V^["add@a|map #2 1G!Gvispell^V^['

(The ^V and ^[ should actually be the ctl-V and escape keys, respectively.)
Use function key two to start the spelling check. Use function key one to go
to the next wrong word. (Use 'n' to continue the search.) You need a small
shell to go with this, called 'vispell':

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tee /tmp/vis$$
echo SpellingList
spell /tmp/vis$$
rm /tmp/vis$$
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When f1 comes back with "SpellingList not found", you've exhausted the list
of bad words.