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

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:

On 05/07/11 19:45, Alexandre Provencio wrote:

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Tony Mechelynck

<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com <mailto:antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com>> wrote:

   On 05/07/11 05:38, Alexandre Provencio wrote:



       On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Gary Johnson
       <garyjohn@spocom.com <mailto:garyjohn@spocom.com>

       <mailto:garyjohn@spocom.com <mailto:garyjohn@spocom.com>>> wrote:

           On 2011-07-04, Alexandre Provencio wrote:
        > Hello everyone, the spell checker here is is not working when
           opening files
        > with ":e", but it works if I ":e" again on the same viewport, or
           using the
        > ":tabe" or calling the file as an argument for vim as in "vim
           filename" (same
        > for gvim).
        >
        > I've already tried leaving only "set spell spelllang=en" on
           vimrc, and renaming
        > the plugins folder, and that behavior does not change.

           If I'm understanding you, you have renamed ~/.vim and you have
           created a ~/.vimrc containing only that command above,

       That is correct.

           then when you
           start vim as just

               vim

           you have spell-checking enabled,

       Well I don't know if it is enabled on this point, what i meant
       was that
       if i launch vim with a file as an argument, as in "vim
       filename.txt",
       the spell check visually works for this file

           but when you open a file using

               :e filename

           spell-checking is no longer enabled.

       Yes. But if i open a second file with :e again, it does work.


           OK then.  When you first start vim, execute

               :verbose set spell?

           You should see

             spell
                   Last set from ~/.vimrc

           Then open a file using ":e" and again execute

               :verbose set spell?

           What do you see?

       I've made this test as you said and also for a second file
       opened with
       :e, because as I said above, the spell checking works on this
       one. On
       the three situations the same message is returned:
          spell
                Last set from ~/.vimrc (but this text on my local
       language, pt-br)


           Regards,
           Gary

       Thanks for your attention Gary.


   OK, well, if 'spell' is set then spell-checking is enabled. There
   might be a problem with the spell dictionary, or with spell being
   enabled or not by the syntax script. Try

           :verbose set spelllang? syntax?

   (with three l's in 'spelllang') in the case where spell checking
   seems to be enabled, and seems to be disabled.


First of all, I wanna make a correction of my last reply, stating that
the spellchecking does start enabled, then it gets disabled after
editing a file with :e, and get enabled again when editing subsequent
files with :e.

I've made the tests and they seem to make things clearer, but not for me
yet :) Here is the output:

Starting vim with no arguments (seems to be enabled)
spelllang=en
        Last set from ~/.vimrc
  syntax=

Opening a file with :e  (seems to be disabled)
spelllang=en
        Last set from ~/.vimrc
  syntax=desktop
        Last set from /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syntax.vim

Subsequent files opened with :e (seems to be enabled)
spelllang=en
  syntax=

   See also :help spell-load

Ok, going to check out.



   Best regards,
   Tony.

Thanks Tony.

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The relevant lines in syntax.vim seem to be the following:

" Set up the connection between FileType and Syntax autocommands.
" This makes the syntax automatically set when the file type is detected.
augroup syntaxset
 au! FileType *        exe "set syntax=" . expand("<amatch>")
augroup END


" Execute the syntax autocommands for the each buffer.
" If the filetype wasn't detected yet, do that now.
" Always do the syntaxset autocommands, for buffers where the 'filetype'
" already was set manually (e.g., help buffers).
doautoall syntaxset FileType
if !s:did_ft
 doautoall filetypedetect BufRead
endif

so the reason your problematic file gets "desktop" 'syntax' is probably that it gets "desktop" 'filetype'. But no matter, let's have a look at $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/desktop.vim... AFAICT it says nothing about spell checking, so IIUC (see ":help spell-syntax") checking should happen everywhere... unless... no, there is no $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/desktop.vim

So, I'm at the end of my withs here. Maybe someone else can help you (and that's why it was a bad idea to reply to me only: I'm adding back the list as a Cc).

Haha sorry about that... I hope someday the gmail team makes a confirmation dialog for this kind of mistake, many times I get myself using 'r' instead of 'a' keyboard shortcut.

I hope someone else can help me with this, in the meantime I'm going to compile the last vim.

Best regards,
Tony.

Thanks again Tony.

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