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

On 2011-07-06, Alexandre Provencio wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:
>
> On 2011-07-06, Alexandre Provencio wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >
> > On 2011-07-06, Alexandre Provencio wrote:
> > > I can also confirm that this is really an issue with the Ubuntu
> Natty's
> > > version. I've just run a livecd, installed vim-gnome, set .vimrc to
> 'set
> > spell
> > > spelllang=en' and the same behavior described occurs.
> >
> > That's very good--that should give us a starting point that other
> > people can use to verify and/or diagnose this problem. I'm losing
> > track of exactly what behavior you're seeing, though. After
> > creating a ~/.vimrc file containing only "set spell spelllang=en",
> > what steps do you take and what do you observe? Give enough detail
> > that anyone could unambiguously repeat your steps. If you're
> > opening a file that contains spelling errors that aren't being
> > highlighted as you expect, include the contents of that file here,
> > or at least some small part of it that exhibits the problem.
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > 1) Create (or use existing) 2 files with spelling errors
>
> I first moved my ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc aside and created a new
> ~/.vimrc containing only this line:
>
> set spell spelllang=en
>
> Then I created two files containing spelling errors. File one
> contains
>
> The doog is brown.
>
> and file2 contains
>
> The burd is blue.
>
> > 2) Start vim (or gvim) with no arguments. Start typing words which does
> not
> > exist, you'll confirm that the words get highlighted by the spell checker
>
> I started vim without any arguments and started typing this:
>
> The qick brown
>
> The word "qick" is highlighted.
>
> I've just found out that you should not type any words on the step2 in order to
> reproduce the bug. Go directly to step three, and this way you won't see the
> E37 message.
> Please repeat the steps with these corrections.

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.

I'm glad you stuck with this.

Regards,
Gary

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