Re: ask Vim why the word under the cursor is misspelled

Adam Monsen wrote:

> Is there a way to directly ask the Vim spell checker precisely why the word
> under the cursor is misspelled?
>
> It took me a bit to figure out how it paints a blue background behind bare
> words on a line because they are not capitalized. For example:
>
> foo
>
> I can figure it out pretty easily from the suggestions listed by typing z=
> in normal mode (while my cursor is on the highlighted non-capitalized word)
> because the first suggestion is "Foo" with a capital F.
>
> It would be handy to be able to get this information explicitly in Vim
> script, similar to how I can use synIDattr() and synIDtrans() to query the
> name and detail of the syntax highlighting group in effect at the current
> cursor position. Getting the group "SpellCap" or something like "word [foo]
> is not capitalized" would be helpful. I guess I'd prefer the first because
> it is unambiguous and ":help SpellCap" works as expected.

You can use spellbadword() for that.

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