Spell checking in vim

[Marco Guazzone]

2009/8/22 Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just wanted to spellcheck some files with vim.
> set spelllang=de reports that de.utf-8.spl is missing.
>
> Is there a package that provides that file or do I have to search
> upstream for it?
>

If you enter ViM and in command mode type:

:setlocal spell spelllang=de

ViM should tell you the following:

  Cannot find spell file for "de" in utf-8
  Do you want me to try downloading it?
  (Y)es, [N]o:

If you type "Y" ViM should downlod the file for you.

Cheers,

-- Marco