Re: Spell checker not working for files opened with ":e"

On 06/07/11 21:25, Charles Campbell wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>> OK, I just did. I see it! Not with the ~/bin/vim version 7.3.189
>> that I built myself, but with the /usr/bin/vim version 7.2.148 that
>> came with this Fedora 11 system.
>>
>> /usr/bin/vim --noplugin -u ~/.vimrc.ap
>> :e file1
>>
>> No highlighting of the misspelled word! (I moved your one-line
>> .vimrc to .vimrc.ap so that I could have my configuration back.)
>>
>> :e file2
>>
>> Misspelled word is now highlighted.
>>
>> That the problem appears in 7.2.148 (and for you in 7.3.035) but not
>> in 7.3.189 suggests that it was a bug that has been fixed. Unless
>> the Ubuntu repository has a newer version, compiling your own is
>> probably the best solution.

Bug 7.3.042 "no spell highlighting when re-using an empty buffer" sounds
like a likely culprit.

See the list of all known 7.3 bugfixes at either of
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/README
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/README

>>
>> I'm glad you stuck with this.
>>
> FWIW: I, too, now see the problem (in vim v7.2.411, not in v7.3.237).
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
>

Best regards,
Tony.
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