Re: Coo-Coo fix for my spell file error

2016-10-31 18:20 GMT+03:00 Xtian Simon <xtiansimon@gmail.com>:
> I'm a longtime user of Vim on Linux (archlinux). Every time I open the app, I get an error about the spelling file.
>
> $ vim
> Warning: Cannot find word list "en.utf-8.spl" or "en.ascii.spl"
> Warning: Cannot find word list "en.utf-8.spl" or "en.ascii.spl"
> Warning: Cannot find word list "en.utf-8.spl" or "en.ascii.spl"
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>
> My copy of Vim is up to date,
>
> $ vim --version
> VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Sep 15 2016 10:11:05)
> Included patches: 1-5
> Compiled by Arch Linux
>
> $ sudo pacman -Ss vim | grep installed
> extra/vim 8.0.0005-1 [installed]
> extra/vim-runtime 8.0.0005-1 [installed]
> community/ranger 1.7.2-1 [installed]
>
> I posted this question on the new StackExchange site vi/vim[1], where a comment posted a link to a blog post suggesting I copy the spell file into my `~/.vim/spell` directory (I tried a soft link instead).
>
> Sure enough, this worked. However, this raises the larger issue, is this right? I'm not a Vim developer, so take my comment with a grain of salt, but isn't the user's home directory of `.vim` supposed to be just for user files? Shouldn't the global spell file be loaded (and findable) at the application level?
>
>
> [1]: http://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/10025/error-warning-cannot-find-word-list-is-this-a-user-or-package-error
> [2]: http://abhipandey.com/2015/10/vim-cannot-find-word-list/

Blog post author is utterly wrong in how he edits the runtimepath: it
must not point to the spell folder, it must point to the *parent* of
the spell folder. Unfortunately, logging in there to comment with
Google does not work.

Wondering where is *yours* spell file initial location.

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