Re: mass delete words based on spell

On Mar 1, 12:47 pm, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > this should have been
>
> > :%s/\w\+/\=printf("%s", !empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0])?submatch(0):'')/
>
> Lovely solution and introduction to spellbadword() (which I've
> not seen/used before).  However, I'm curious why you chose to use
> printf("%s", ...) instead of just using the contents.
>
> So my reworking of Christian's idea:
>
> :%s/\w\+/\=empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0]))?'':submatch(0)/g
>
> The other catch (at least in English) is that words like "can't"
> aren't found whole by "\w\+", so you might have to tweak the
> regexp or 'iskeyword' to include apostrophes.

Yes wonderful introduction to spellbadword()

I tried your solution and got errors, counted parens and found one too
many closing, and this works.

:%s/\w\+/\=empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0])?'':submatch(0)/g

-Bill

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