Friday, July 31, 2015

Re: Is there a repository of spell files for different languages?

bpj wrote:

> Is there a repository of spell files for different languages?
>
> Googling i found a link to
> <ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/> but it seems to be dead.

It's not dead, it's just that nobody sends spell file updates.

> Even though it turned out to be a piece of cake to build .spl
> files once you have gotten hold of an appropriate
> OpenOffice/LibreOffice 'dictionary' file maybe it would be a good
> idea to create a public repository somewhere. I'm thinking GitHub
> because then people can contribute files they created themselves
> by doing a pull request. I'd be willing to build .spl files from
> existing OO/LO 'dictionaries' and maintain the repository if the
> OO/LO licenses permit it and there is an interest.

If you can just run the scripts to update the spell files, and adjust
the scripts where needed, that would be good. The resulting spell files
do need to go on the ftp site, that's where Vim gets them from.

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