Re: adaption of spell checker for non-prose data entry

Mike Marchywka wrote:

> I recently went out and got vim 8 for he spell checker and it seems
> pretty nice. I was curious however if anyone has tried to adapt that
> for data entry rather than correcting
> normal compositions. For example, I have this data entry system that
> defines a bunch of nouns with allowed modifiers and I enter all the
> data in vi and then run a validation
> program. It would be interesting however to highlight words that are
> not in the noun list or not possible modifiers. The specifics are
> below but thought
> some users may have other applications. Thanks.

It might work to define a syntax for your file format, and specify
certain regions to be spell checked. You can find some example syntax
files, usually they spell check comments.

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