Re: Make vim use hunspell?

Metal Heart wrote:

> Hi users and experts,
>
> I am aware vim has it's own spellchecker, and uses .spl files that can
> be generated by mkspell from hunspell dictionary files.
>
> Here's the thing - I am trying to use same spellchecking files for
> vim, Libreoffice, and OmegaT (an opensource translation memory
> system), as I don't want to maintain two sets of dictionaries.
>
> Libreoffice and OmegaT support hunspell dictionaries only.
>
> Is there any chance of either:
> - getting vim to read and write hunspell dictionaries (IIRC vim
> doesn't completely support the format),

Vim originally had the goal to support the same file format.
Unfortunately the hunspell developers went ahead and implemented some
weird features, partly including language-specific things in the source
code. And quite a few of the flags are not properly documented, making
it very difficult to follow their file format. It requires reverse
engineering their code.

> - or making vim use the external huspell spellchecker (instead of its
> internal one)?

That would be too slow. Also, the suggestions from Vim are far
superiour (last time I checked, which is quite a while ago).

> I would greatly appreciate any pointers. A systemwide spellchecker
> would be so useful, especially as I want several colleagues to all use
> and modify the same directories. It would improve our writing! :-)

I would invite anyone to work on this.

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