Monday, March 1, 2010

Re: mass delete words based on spell

Hi Tim!

On Mo, 01 Mär 2010, Tim Chase wrote:

> Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> this should have been
>>
>> :%s/\w\+/\=printf("%s", !empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0])?submatch(0):'')/
>
> Lovely solution and introduction to spellbadword() (which I've not
> seen/used before). However, I'm curious why you chose to use
> printf("%s", ...) instead of just using the contents.

old habbit (I often tend use use explicitly printf() even when it not
required)

>
> So my reworking of Christian's idea:
>
> :%s/\w\+/\=empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0]))?'':submatch(0)/g
>
> The other catch (at least in English) is that words like "can't" aren't
> found whole by "\w\+", so you might have to tweak the regexp or
> 'iskeyword' to include apostrophes.

true. Didn't think of that since in Germany we wouldn't consider that as
words.

regards,
Christian

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